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... England , free from all apprehension from the continent , requiring no support finds herself bound by the force of circumstances to op- pose Russia , as a state ... parliament of - England , I should have made a covenant with 194 EXERCISES .
... England , free from all apprehension from the continent , requiring no support finds herself bound by the force of circumstances to op- pose Russia , as a state ... parliament of - England , I should have made a covenant with 194 EXERCISES .
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... England , I should have made a covenant with my conscience to seize the ... parliament , forfeit the rights of the kingdom , repudiate the instructions ... parliament of Ireland speak on the subject of their EXERCISES . 195.
... England , I should have made a covenant with my conscience to seize the ... parliament , forfeit the rights of the kingdom , repudiate the instructions ... parliament of Ireland speak on the subject of their EXERCISES . 195.
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... parliament of Ireland speak on the subject of their liberty . It begins to be made a question in England , whether the principal persons wish to be free . It was the delicacy of former parliaments to be si- lent on the subject of ...
... parliament of Ireland speak on the subject of their liberty . It begins to be made a question in England , whether the principal persons wish to be free . It was the delicacy of former parliaments to be si- lent on the subject of ...
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... Parliament of England exer- cises or claims a legislation over this country . So long as this shall be the case , that very free trade , oth- erwise a perpetual attachment , will be the cause of new discontent . I shall hear of ...
... Parliament of England exer- cises or claims a legislation over this country . So long as this shall be the case , that very free trade , oth- erwise a perpetual attachment , will be the cause of new discontent . I shall hear of ...
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... Parliament over this land , which has no foundation in utility , or necessity , or empire , or the laws of England , or the laws of Ire- land , or the laws of nature , or the laws of God ; -do not suffer it to have a duration in your ...
... Parliament over this land , which has no foundation in utility , or necessity , or empire , or the laws of England , or the laws of Ire- land , or the laws of nature , or the laws of God ; -do not suffer it to have a duration in your ...
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Page 131 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 124 - Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, Sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Page 129 - I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 138 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him?
Page 130 - tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly, And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried, 'Give me some drink, Titinius,
Page 152 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 255 - And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking : and when the people saw it, they removed. and stood afar off. And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear : but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
Page 139 - But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar; I found it in his closet; it is his will. Let but the commons hear this testament — Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read — And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins...
Page 130 - Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy ; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried ' Help me, Cassius, or I sink...
Page 119 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.