Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... grounds and origin of this war , whether I look forward to the probable issue of the contest , or fix my attention on the inevitable effects of any attempt to abandon it in the present crisis , my judgment is driven to the painful but ...
... grounds and origin of this war , whether I look forward to the probable issue of the contest , or fix my attention on the inevitable effects of any attempt to abandon it in the present crisis , my judgment is driven to the painful but ...
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... grounds and origin of the present war We cannot have forgotten , that before the French had declared war against us , we had seen in their conduct views of aggrandizement , projects of ambition , and principles of fixed hostility ...
... grounds and origin of the present war We cannot have forgotten , that before the French had declared war against us , we had seen in their conduct views of aggrandizement , projects of ambition , and principles of fixed hostility ...
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... and anxiously to revise the grounds on which it was adopt- ed . In the present moment , however superfluous it may appear to search for any additional justification of our conduct , or to endeavour to throw any ON AN ADDRESS TO THE KING .
... and anxiously to revise the grounds on which it was adopt- ed . In the present moment , however superfluous it may appear to search for any additional justification of our conduct , or to endeavour to throw any ON AN ADDRESS TO THE KING .
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... grounds , but precisely on the very grounds on which it was originally founded . If I could bring to your bar the most malignant , the most active , and the most able enemy of the British name in the national convention , the author of ...
... grounds , but precisely on the very grounds on which it was originally founded . If I could bring to your bar the most malignant , the most active , and the most able enemy of the British name in the national convention , the author of ...
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... ground than the main- tenance of the natural rights of the free people of Belgium ; when we recollect , that the final adjust- ment of that important question was postponed by France , until the time when the liberty of the Bel- gians ...
... ground than the main- tenance of the natural rights of the free people of Belgium ; when we recollect , that the final adjust- ment of that important question was postponed by France , until the time when the liberty of the Bel- gians ...
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Página 429 - If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild and free and humane government; it is the liberty, Lords and Commons...
Página 429 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 451 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Página 389 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Página 466 - And all the rule, one empire ; only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable ; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest : then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.
Página 452 - But he has put to hazard his ease, his security, his interest, his power, even his darling popularity, for the benefit of a people whom he has never seen.
Página 390 - If the advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the judge; nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of perhaps a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favor the benevolent principle of English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the very judge to be his counsel.
Página 466 - This having learned, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all the ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all Nature's works, Or works of God in heaven, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world...