The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best Speeches of the Most Distinguished English, Irish, and Scotch Parliamentary Speakers, from the Beginning of the Reign of Charles I. to the Present Time, Tom 2Thomas Kirk, 1809 |
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... honourable peace ; in which case , as well as in the prosecution of the war , I do assure you , no consideration whatever shall make me depart from the true interests of these my kingdoms , and the honour and dignity of my crown ...
... honourable peace ; in which case , as well as in the prosecution of the war , I do assure you , no consideration whatever shall make me depart from the true interests of these my kingdoms , and the honour and dignity of my crown ...
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... honourable would it have been to have at once considered the king of Spain as the aggressor , as the delinquent ! It is evident , from the coolness and deliberation with which Buccarelli acted , that he had acted under the authority ...
... honourable would it have been to have at once considered the king of Spain as the aggressor , as the delinquent ! It is evident , from the coolness and deliberation with which Buccarelli acted , that he had acted under the authority ...
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... honourable pretence to withdraw from that scene of so many disasters . But you acted then like poltrons , and poltrons always bring upon themselves a succession of insults . And now , that like bullies , you hector , and bluster , and ...
... honourable pretence to withdraw from that scene of so many disasters . But you acted then like poltrons , and poltrons always bring upon themselves a succession of insults . And now , that like bullies , you hector , and bluster , and ...
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... HONOURABLE C. J. FOX , Was born Jan. 13 , 1748. He was educated first at Eton , and after- wards at Hertford College , Oxford . He was returned to Parlia- ment for Midhurst in 1768. He was at first on the side of ministry , but declared ...
... HONOURABLE C. J. FOX , Was born Jan. 13 , 1748. He was educated first at Eton , and after- wards at Hertford College , Oxford . He was returned to Parlia- ment for Midhurst in 1768. He was at first on the side of ministry , but declared ...
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... honourable gentlemen are who intro- duced it ; that they are men of character , men of abili- ties , men of knowledge , men of reputed integrity ; I hesitated , I strove to persuade myself , that I must rather be mistaken myself , than ...
... honourable gentlemen are who intro- duced it ; that they are men of character , men of abili- ties , men of knowledge , men of reputed integrity ; I hesitated , I strove to persuade myself , that I must rather be mistaken myself , than ...
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Strona 346 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Strona 299 - I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders...
Strona 292 - Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Strona 11 - House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here. Is he represented by any knight of the shire, in any county in this kingdom? Would to God that respectable representation was augmented to a greater number! Or will you tell him that he is represented by any representative of a borough ? a borough which, perhaps, its own representatives never saw! This is what is called the rotten part of the constitution.
Strona 296 - ... their ability, let the best of them get up and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made pack-horses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the...
Strona 299 - In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to Congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Strona 300 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Strona 297 - When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance of British liberty, are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength, our opprobrium for their glory; and the slough of slavery, which we are not able to work off, to serve them for their freedom?
Strona 10 - They are the subjects of this kingdom, equally entitled with yourselves to all the natural rights of mankind and the peculiar privileges of Englishmen ; equally bound by its laws, and equally participating in the constitution of this free country. The Americans are the sons, not the bastards of England.
Strona 122 - that having been in this session of parliament expelled this house, he was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament.