Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Tom 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... British dominions ; un- less we could sit at ease with the axe suspended over our heads , and wait with tranquillity of mind the moment , when these formidable enemies , after the extinction of every element of order and regular ...
... British dominions ; un- less we could sit at ease with the axe suspended over our heads , and wait with tranquillity of mind the moment , when these formidable enemies , after the extinction of every element of order and regular ...
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... British name in the national convention , the author of the most scandalous official libels against the views , interests , and power of Great Britain , the author of the most inflammatory speeches tending to provoke the war in which we ...
... British name in the national convention , the author of the most scandalous official libels against the views , interests , and power of Great Britain , the author of the most inflammatory speeches tending to provoke the war in which we ...
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... British convention , found- ed , as such an institution must have been , upon the destruction of every branch of our happy consti- tution . 2d . The conduct of France , in incorporating the territories of other powers with her own ...
... British convention , found- ed , as such an institution must have been , upon the destruction of every branch of our happy consti- tution . 2d . The conduct of France , in incorporating the territories of other powers with her own ...
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... British empire . We are told by Ro- bespierre , that a part of the general scheme of Brissot and his associates was to free and arm all the negroes in the French colonies in the West Indies . Brissot , instead of attempting to refute ...
... British empire . We are told by Ro- bespierre , that a part of the general scheme of Brissot and his associates was to free and arm all the negroes in the French colonies in the West Indies . Brissot , instead of attempting to refute ...
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... British heart , to vent itself in terms of more severity , than those which Brissot has used in expounding , what he justly calls the true principles of the French Republick ? Now let us again confront Brissot's confessions with his ...
... British heart , to vent itself in terms of more severity , than those which Brissot has used in expounding , what he justly calls the true principles of the French Republick ? Now let us again confront Brissot's confessions with his ...
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Strona 429 - If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild and free and humane government; it is the liberty, Lords and Commons...
Strona 429 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Strona 451 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Strona 389 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Strona 466 - And all the rule, one empire ; only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable ; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest : then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.
Strona 452 - But he has put to hazard his ease, his security, his interest, his power, even his darling popularity, for the benefit of a people whom he has never seen.
Strona 390 - If the advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the judge; nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of perhaps a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favor the benevolent principle of English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the very judge to be his counsel.
Strona 466 - This having learned, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all the ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all Nature's works, Or works of God in heaven, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world...