Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most Eminent Orators of Great Britain for the Last Two Centuries; with Sketches of Their Lives, an Estimate of Their Genius, and Notes, Critical and ExplanatoryHarper & Brothers, 1852 - 947 pagina's |
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Pagina iv
... JUNIUS are given in their proper place , with re- marks on his style as an admirable model of condensation , elegance , and force . In the first fifty pages will be found nearly all the celebrated speeches before the days of Lord ...
... JUNIUS are given in their proper place , with re- marks on his style as an admirable model of condensation , elegance , and force . In the first fifty pages will be found nearly all the celebrated speeches before the days of Lord ...
Pagina vi
... JUNIUS .. 160 163 Sheridan , 230 ; writes his Reflections on the Revolu- tion in France , 231 ; characteristics of the work , ib . ; its errors , ib .; its excellences , 231-32 ; his separation from Mr. Fox , 232-33 ; loss of his son ...
... JUNIUS .. 160 163 Sheridan , 230 ; writes his Reflections on the Revolu- tion in France , 231 ; characteristics of the work , ib . ; its errors , ib .; its excellences , 231-32 ; his separation from Mr. Fox , 232-33 ; loss of his son ...
Pagina 59
... Junius cast them into his teeth sixteen years after . " Your zeal in the cause of an unhappy prince was expressed with the sincerity of wine and some of the solemnities of religion . " In quoting from Butler , I have modified his ...
... Junius cast them into his teeth sixteen years after . " Your zeal in the cause of an unhappy prince was expressed with the sincerity of wine and some of the solemnities of religion . " In quoting from Butler , I have modified his ...
Pagina 70
... Junius , and other distinguished writers of the day . At no period in later times , has secular eloquence gathered so many of her images and allusions from the pages of the Bible . " Not con- Thus withdrawn from the cares and labors of ...
... Junius , and other distinguished writers of the day . At no period in later times , has secular eloquence gathered so many of her images and allusions from the pages of the Bible . " Not con- Thus withdrawn from the cares and labors of ...
Pagina 109
... Junius's Letters . | so small a number of men , were sufficient to di- rect our judgment and our conduct . But Prov- idence has taken better care of our happiness , and given us , in the simplicity of common sense , a rule for our ...
... Junius's Letters . | so small a number of men , were sufficient to di- rect our judgment and our conduct . But Prov- idence has taken better care of our happiness , and given us , in the simplicity of common sense , a rule for our ...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ... Chauncey Allen Goodrich Volledige weergave - 1870 |
Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ... Chauncey Allen Goodrich Volledige weergave - 1875 |
Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ... Chauncey Allen Goodrich Volledige weergave - 1853 |
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Pagina 371 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Pagina 10 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not...
Pagina 366 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.
Pagina 270 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners : yet shall, before you taste death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Pagina 271 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Pagina 235 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Join voices all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Pagina 138 - I call upon the honour of your lordships, to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate the national character.
Pagina 274 - 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 the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Pagina 366 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy.
Pagina 267 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war ; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented, from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace ; sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...