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 iii
... interest to the student in oratory , and therefore all his speeches are here inserted , including eight never before pub- lished in this country . All of BURKE's speeches which he prepared for the press have also found a place , except ...
... interest to the student in oratory , and therefore all his speeches are here inserted , including eight never before pub- lished in this country . All of BURKE's speeches which he prepared for the press have also found a place , except ...
Pagina 2
... interest , that all those secondary and collateral trains of thought with which a speaker like Burke , amplifies and adorns the discussion , are rejected as un- worthy of the stern severity of the occasion . The eloquence lies wholly in ...
... interest , that all those secondary and collateral trains of thought with which a speaker like Burke , amplifies and adorns the discussion , are rejected as un- worthy of the stern severity of the occasion . The eloquence lies wholly in ...
Pagina 14
... interest , and the interest of a saint in heaven , who hath left me here two pledges on earth- [ at this his breath stopped , and he shed tears abundantly in mentioning his wife ] -I should never take the pains to keep up this ru- inous ...
... interest , and the interest of a saint in heaven , who hath left me here two pledges on earth- [ at this his breath stopped , and he shed tears abundantly in mentioning his wife ] -I should never take the pains to keep up this ru- inous ...
Pagina 31
... interest to have frequent elections . The influence they possessed over their tenantry , could be exerted at any moment , and cost them little or nothing . This influence the Whigs in power could overcome only at an enormous expense ...
... interest to have frequent elections . The influence they possessed over their tenantry , could be exerted at any moment , and cost them little or nothing . This influence the Whigs in power could overcome only at an enormous expense ...
Pagina 32
... interest of his country , and consult- ing nothing but that of enriching and aggrand- izing himself and his favorites ; in foreign affairs , trusting none but those whose education makes it impossible for them to have such knowledge or ...
... interest of his country , and consult- ing nothing but that of enriching and aggrand- izing himself and his favorites ; in foreign affairs , trusting none but those whose education makes it impossible for them to have such knowledge or ...
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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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Populaire passages
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...