Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, المجلد 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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الصفحة 169
... right honourable gentleman , * last night , I consider it my duty to trouble you somewhat at length on this important question . But before I enter into the consideration of it , I will explain why I did not obey a call made , and ...
... right honourable gentleman , * last night , I consider it my duty to trouble you somewhat at length on this important question . But before I enter into the consideration of it , I will explain why I did not obey a call made , and ...
الصفحة 170
... right honourable gentleman is truly desirous of meeting the charges against him ,. and he has confidence in his ability to vindicate his conduct , why not pursue the course which would be manly and open ? Why not go into a committee ...
... right honourable gentleman is truly desirous of meeting the charges against him ,. and he has confidence in his ability to vindicate his conduct , why not pursue the course which would be manly and open ? Why not go into a committee ...
الصفحة 171
... right honourable gentleman in opinion , I felt for his situa- tion . There was in this excuse some shadow of reason by which it might be possible to defend him , when the whole of his conduct came to be investi- gated . I thought it ...
... right honourable gentleman in opinion , I felt for his situa- tion . There was in this excuse some shadow of reason by which it might be possible to defend him , when the whole of his conduct came to be investi- gated . I thought it ...
الصفحة 172
... gentlemen on the other side , " unless the pa- pers now before you show there is ground for accusa- tion , and unless you agree to accuse , it is not safe or proper to grant you more . " But is this a defence for the right honourable ...
... gentlemen on the other side , " unless the pa- pers now before you show there is ground for accusa- tion , and unless you agree to accuse , it is not safe or proper to grant you more . " But is this a defence for the right honourable ...
الصفحة 173
... right ho- nourable gentleman thinks it honourable to pursue ! I cheerfully yield to him the ground he chooses to occupy , and I will proceed , in obedience to the call personally addressed to me , frankly to state the reasons for the ...
... right ho- nourable gentleman thinks it honourable to pursue ! I cheerfully yield to him the ground he chooses to occupy , and I will proceed , in obedience to the call personally addressed to me , frankly to state the reasons for the ...
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الصفحة 460 - With earth's wide bounds, his glory with the heavens.
الصفحة 460 - 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 loth To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.
الصفحة 423 - 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...
الصفحة 423 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
الصفحة 445 - 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...
الصفحة 383 - 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 practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
الصفحة 458 - Christians, I cannot help lamenting that Newton had not lived to this day, to have had his shallowness filled up with this new flood of light. But the subject is too awful for irony. I will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian ! Newton...
الصفحة 460 - 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...