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... House of Commons in a most critical period of the British Empire have richly earned for him a place with Demosthenes and Cicero . He deserves , however , equal fame for his con- summate mastery of language , and for the wisdom and ...
... House of Commons in a most critical period of the British Empire have richly earned for him a place with Demosthenes and Cicero . He deserves , however , equal fame for his con- summate mastery of language , and for the wisdom and ...
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... House of Commons ; he was eminently qualified to shine as a man of genius , as the instructor of mankind , as the brightest luminary of his age : but he had nothing in common with that motley crew of knights , citizens , and burgesses ...
... House of Commons ; he was eminently qualified to shine as a man of genius , as the instructor of mankind , as the brightest luminary of his age : but he had nothing in common with that motley crew of knights , citizens , and burgesses ...
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... House of Commons , and served his country most loyally in that capacity until his retirement in 1794 . These years belong to history and can best be measured by the great causes to which he gave himself unspar- ingly . America , Ireland ...
... House of Commons , and served his country most loyally in that capacity until his retirement in 1794 . These years belong to history and can best be measured by the great causes to which he gave himself unspar- ingly . America , Ireland ...
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... . " He enjoyed , however , what few men in high positions have , the peace that comes with the payment in full of duty's debt . " I am very happy , Sir , that you approve my late conduct in the House of Commons . INTRODUCTION xix.
... . " He enjoyed , however , what few men in high positions have , the peace that comes with the payment in full of duty's debt . " I am very happy , Sir , that you approve my late conduct in the House of Commons . INTRODUCTION xix.
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Edmund Burke Leslie Nathan Broughton. approve my late conduct in the House of Commons . I have lost some friends by it , but I have not lost my spirits , nor my principles , and I have rather increased my inward peace . " Near the close ...
Edmund Burke Leslie Nathan Broughton. approve my late conduct in the House of Commons . I have lost some friends by it , but I have not lost my spirits , nor my principles , and I have rather increased my inward peace . " Near the close ...
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Стр. 144 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Стр. 207 - 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...
Стр. 342 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Стр. 203 - English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English Constitution, which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Стр. 159 - I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation, in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates. The language in which they would hear you tell them this tale, would detect the imposition ; your speech would betray you. An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery.
Стр. 268 - Having terminated his disputes with every enemy and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Стр. 95 - O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Стр. 316 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Стр. 148 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound.
Стр. 204 - It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.