Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Band 5Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 |
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... learned man , as they are now but little read . This author says , " Nunquam libentius loquor quam cum quod loquor auditoribus displicet . " I spoke from no such motive , neither did I , like Car- danus , persevere the more obstinately ...
... learned man , as they are now but little read . This author says , " Nunquam libentius loquor quam cum quod loquor auditoribus displicet . " I spoke from no such motive , neither did I , like Car- danus , persevere the more obstinately ...
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... learned gentleman who has just preceded me , which , it must be confessed , was an extraordinary exhibition of eloquence . But I have , sir , another reason to offer myself thus early to the notice of the house in the intimation given ...
... learned gentleman who has just preceded me , which , it must be confessed , was an extraordinary exhibition of eloquence . But I have , sir , another reason to offer myself thus early to the notice of the house in the intimation given ...
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... learned gentleman with a pretty play of words to represent that my honoura- ble friend had no intention ever to fulfil his promise ; that the total change would go no further than its parts , the fundamental one would only skim the sur ...
... learned gentleman with a pretty play of words to represent that my honoura- ble friend had no intention ever to fulfil his promise ; that the total change would go no further than its parts , the fundamental one would only skim the sur ...
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... learned gentleman even went so far as to say , that my honourable friend was himself convinced of their destructive tendency , and , if he came into administration , would either retract them , or refuse to fulfil his promise . Upon ...
... learned gentleman even went so far as to say , that my honourable friend was himself convinced of their destructive tendency , and , if he came into administration , would either retract them , or refuse to fulfil his promise . Upon ...
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... learned gentleman , who ad- dressed himself to the chair in these remarkable words " Irise , Mr. Speaker , if I have risen . ” Now , to re- move all doubts , I can assure the learned gentleman that he actually did rise ; and not only ...
... learned gentleman , who ad- dressed himself to the chair in these remarkable words " Irise , Mr. Speaker , if I have risen . ” Now , to re- move all doubts , I can assure the learned gentleman that he actually did rise ; and not only ...
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Seite 42 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Seite 389 - Protestant religion, of this country, against the arbitrary cruelties of Popery and the Inquisition, if these more than Popish cruelties and inquisitorial practices are let loose among us...
Seite 389 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Seite 380 - We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing and suffered much.
Seite 381 - You may swell every expense and every effort still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles...
Seite 385 - In a just and necessary war, to maintain the rights or honour of my country I would strip the shirt from my back to support it. But in such a war as this, unjust in its principle, impracticable in its means, and ruinous in its consequences, I would not contribute a single effort nor a single shilling. I do not call for vengeance on the heads of those who have been guilty; I only recommend to them to make their retreat. Let them walk off, and let them make haste, or they may be sure that speedy and...
Seite 386 - Lords, since they had neither sagacity to foresee, nor justice nor humanity to shun, these oppressive calamities; since not even severe experience can make them feel, nor the imminent ruin of their country awaken them from their stupefaction, the guardian care of parliament must interpose.
Seite 379 - Paris they transact the reciprocal interests of America and France. Can there be a more mortifying insult? Can even our ministers sustain a more humiliating disgrace ? Do they dare to resent it? Do they presume even to hint a vindication of their honor, and the dignity of the state, by requiring the dismission of the plenipotentiaries of America...