Great orators, statesmen, and divines, brief lives with specimens of characteristic speeches, selected by the ed. of 'Treasury of British eloquence'.1881 |
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Pagina 16
... thought hath affrighted me , and that not only in respect of our dangers from abroad ( which yet I know are great , as they have been often pressed and dilated to us ) , but in respect of our dis- orders here at home , which do enforce ...
... thought hath affrighted me , and that not only in respect of our dangers from abroad ( which yet I know are great , as they have been often pressed and dilated to us ) , but in respect of our dis- orders here at home , which do enforce ...
Pagina 21
... thought I had been doing that which was my duty , and thought it would have satisfied you ; but if everything must be too high or too low , you are not to be satisfied . Again , I would not have accepted of the government , unless I ...
... thought I had been doing that which was my duty , and thought it would have satisfied you ; but if everything must be too high or too low , you are not to be satisfied . Again , I would not have accepted of the government , unless I ...
Pagina 30
... thoughts ; and I think it my duty to disburden myself of some of them by laying them before , and exposing them to the serious con- sideration of , this honourable House . I think I see a free and independent kingdom delivering up that ...
... thoughts ; and I think it my duty to disburden myself of some of them by laying them before , and exposing them to the serious con- sideration of , this honourable House . I think I see a free and independent kingdom delivering up that ...
Pagina 32
... thoughts ? And yet they are but the least part suggested to me by these dishonour- able articles . Should not the consideration of these things vivify these dry bones of ours ? Should not the memory of our noble predecessors ' valour ...
... thoughts ? And yet they are but the least part suggested to me by these dishonour- able articles . Should not the consideration of these things vivify these dry bones of ours ? Should not the memory of our noble predecessors ' valour ...
Pagina 42
... thought right . If I have ever opposed , I have done it upon the points themselves , without mixing in party or faction , and without any collateral views . I honour the King and respect the people ; but many things acquired by the ...
... thought right . If I have ever opposed , I have done it upon the points themselves , without mixing in party or faction , and without any collateral views . I honour the King and respect the people ; but many things acquired by the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 90 - 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 loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.
Pagina 52 - An act for granting certain duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America ; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs upon the exportation from this kingdom of coffee and...
Pagina 52 - Will you punish them for the madness you have occasioned ? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side. I will undertake for America that she will follow the example. There are two lines in a ballad of...
Pagina 165 - Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent; and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Pagina 11 - He is the most diligent preacher of all other; he is never out of his diocese ; he is never from his cure ; ye shall never find him unoccupied ; he is ever in his parish ; he keepeth residence at all times ; ye shall never find him out of the way, call for him when you will he is ever at home ; the diligentest preacher in all the realm; he is ever at his plough: no lording or loitering can hinder him; he is ever applying his business, ye shall never find him idle, I warrant you.
Pagina 46 - Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred, who as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and become more wicked with less temptation ; who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot, enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.
Pagina 160 - We have shown the example of a nation in which every class of society accepts with cheerfulness the lot which Providence has assigned to it, while at the same time every individual of each class is constantly striving to raise himself in the social scale — not by injustice and wrong, not by violence and illegality, but by persevering good conduct and by the steady and energetic exertion of the moral and intellectual faculties with which his Creator has endowed him.
Pagina 48 - ... to recoil within them — men promoted to the highest seats of justice; some who, to my knowledge, were glad, by going to a foreign country, to escape being brought to the bar of a court of justice in their own.
Pagina 179 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Pagina 10 - Be of good comfort, master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.