 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.  Orators of England - Page 144edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1881 - 250 pages
...effect, as in the following sentences :— " The head and front of my offending." " I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed, to hear them avowed in this house and country." Pleonasm or redundancy consists in the use of words which do not exactly repeat the sense,... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 pages
...Suffolk, " to use all the means that 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. " That God and nature have put into our hands ! " What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...passages in Chatham's speeches. " I am astonished ! " he cried, quickly rising from his seat, "I am shocked to hear such principles confessed — to hear...to have encroached again upon your attention ; but 1 cannot repress my indignation — I feel myself impelled by every duty. My lords, we are called upon... | |
 | Christian Brothers - Readers - 1884 - 516 pages
...Suffolk, " 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. My lords, I did not intend to encroach so much on your attention, but I cannot repress my indignation... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - History - 1885 - 556 pages
...Suffolk, " to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands." 2. I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed; to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country. My lords, I did not intend to encroach so much on your attention ; but I cannot repress my indignation.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 264 pages
...Suffolk, '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. My lords, I did not intend to encroach so much on your attention, but I cannot repress my indignation... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...Suffolk, '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. My lords, I did not intend to encroach so much on your attention; but I cannot repress my indignation—I... | |
 | John George Repplier McElroy - Literary Criticism - 1885 - 374 pages
...feeling often disposes the mind to dwell upon the object of the feeling; as, I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed; to hear them avowed in this house and this country. — All is little, and low, and mean among us. — And, so speaking, I say that to... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Readers - 1866 - 402 pages
...BARBARITY OF EMPLOYING- INDIANS IN WAR. Speech in Parliament, Nov. 18, 1777. EARL OF CHATHAM. MY LOEDS : I am astonished ! shocked ! to hear such principles...equally unconstitutional, inhuman and unchristian 1 My lords, I did not intend to have encroached again upon your attention ; but I could not repress... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh - England - 1887 - 328 pages
...whieh God and nature had put into our hands," " I am astonished," exclaimed Lord Chatham, as he rose, "shocked to hear such principles confessed, to hear...principles equally unconstitutional, inhuman, and un- Christian. That God and nature put into our hands ! I know not what idea the lord may entertain... | |
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