The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches in the English Language; Arranged Under Three Distinct Heads of Popular, Parliamentary, and Judicial Oratory: with Historical Illustrations: to which is Prefixed, an Introduction to the Study and Practice of Eloquence, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 - Oratory |
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... object of his life ; but to tax and to please , no more than to love and to be wise , is not given to men . However , he attempted it . To render the tax palatable to the partizans of American revenues , he made a preamble stating the ...
... object of his life ; but to tax and to please , no more than to love and to be wise , is not given to men . However , he attempted it . To render the tax palatable to the partizans of American revenues , he made a preamble stating the ...
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... object , and he begged the patience of the House would bear him com- pany in giving it an attentive examination . This paper certainly confirmed every thing that had been advanced by his honorable friend and himself on the former oc ...
... object , and he begged the patience of the House would bear him com- pany in giving it an attentive examination . This paper certainly confirmed every thing that had been advanced by his honorable friend and himself on the former oc ...
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... object of his expedition : he no longer sought the enemy even in their flight . Nay more , he in an instant relinquished all the advantages he had gained with so much difficulty , which had been attended with circumstances which ...
... object of his expedition : he no longer sought the enemy even in their flight . Nay more , he in an instant relinquished all the advantages he had gained with so much difficulty , which had been attended with circumstances which ...
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... object of the campaign was to penetrate into North Carolina . " This , the ho- norable gentleman said , surely could not have been suf- ficient of itself to sanctify an expedition of so much cer- tain expence and probable danger ; and ...
... object of the campaign was to penetrate into North Carolina . " This , the ho- norable gentleman said , surely could not have been suf- ficient of itself to sanctify an expedition of so much cer- tain expence and probable danger ; and ...
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... object of the cam- paign had failed . This failure , he said , must have pro- ceeded from either of these three causes ; first , that there must have been some essential defects in the plan ; se- condly , that the means must not have ...
... object of the cam- paign had failed . This failure , he said , must have pro- ceeded from either of these three causes ; first , that there must have been some essential defects in the plan ; se- condly , that the means must not have ...
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Page 81 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 44 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never.
Page 46 - 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: I invoke the genius of the constitution.
Page 87 - Cup. For as the benefit is great, if with a true penitent heart and lively faith we receive that holy Sacrament ; (for then we spiritually eat the Flesh of Christ, and drink His Blood; then we dwell in Christ, and Christ in us; we are one with Christ, and Christ with us ;) so is the danger great, if we receive the same unworthily.
Page 43 - Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.
Page 88 - Christ with us :) so is the danger great if we receive the same unworthily. For then we are guilty of the body and blood of Christ our Saviour ; we eat and drink our own damnation, not considering the Lord's body...
Page 17 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 28 - For a wise man, he seemed to me at that time, to be governed too much by general maxims. I speak with the freedom of history, and I hope without offence. One or two of these maxims, flowing from an opinion not the most indulgent to our unhappy species, and surely a little too general, led him into measures that were...
Page 30 - If he had not so great a stock as some have had who flourished formerly, of knowledge long treasured up, he knew better by far than any man I ever was acquainted with, how to bring together within a short time, all that was necessary to establish, to illustrate, and to decorate that side of the question he supported.
Page 46 - to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed ; to hear them avowed in this House or in this country.