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, المجلد 2Thomas Kirk, 1809 |
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... ideas , but by their force and intensity . He has the same ideas of other men , but he has them in a thousand times greater clearness and strength and vividness . Perhaps there is no man so poorly furnished with thoughts and feelings ...
... ideas , but by their force and intensity . He has the same ideas of other men , but he has them in a thousand times greater clearness and strength and vividness . Perhaps there is no man so poorly furnished with thoughts and feelings ...
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... idea or give energy to the mind , is of the nature of eloquence . The orator is only concerned to give a tone of mas- culine firmness to the will , to brace the sinews and muscles of the mind ; not to delight our nervous sensibilities ...
... idea or give energy to the mind , is of the nature of eloquence . The orator is only concerned to give a tone of mas- culine firmness to the will , to brace the sinews and muscles of the mind ; not to delight our nervous sensibilities ...
الصفحة 11
... idea of a virtual representa- tion of America in this house , is the most contemptible idea that ever entered into the head of man . - It does not deserve a serious consideration . The commons of America , represented in their seve ral ...
... idea of a virtual representa- tion of America in this house , is the most contemptible idea that ever entered into the head of man . - It does not deserve a serious consideration . The commons of America , represented in their seve ral ...
الصفحة 37
... the common feelings of com- passion . That their ideas of taxation were marked by the same principle . The argument urged for taxing the cider counties , viz . " The equity of placing A. D. 1770. ] ST MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM .
... the common feelings of com- passion . That their ideas of taxation were marked by the same principle . The argument urged for taxing the cider counties , viz . " The equity of placing A. D. 1770. ] ST MARQUIS OF ROCKINGHAM .
الصفحة 46
... ideas , we did right in not opposing it . The effect of these acquisitions is , I confess , not immediate ; but they unite with the main body by degrees , and in time make a part of the national strength . I fear , my lords , it is too ...
... ideas , we did right in not opposing it . The effect of these acquisitions is , I confess , not immediate ; but they unite with the main body by degrees , and in time make a part of the national strength . I fear , my lords , it is too ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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?
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.