Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most Eminent Orators of Great Britain for the Last Two Centuries, with Sketches of Their Lives, an Estimate of Their Genius, and Notes, Critical and ExplanatoryHarper, 1875 - 947 páginas |
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... thought . Detached passages of extraordinary force and beauty may be useful as exercises in elocution ; but , if dwelt upon exclusively as models of style , they are sure to vitiate the taste . It is like taking all one's nutriment from ...
... thought . Detached passages of extraordinary force and beauty may be useful as exercises in elocution ; but , if dwelt upon exclusively as models of style , they are sure to vitiate the taste . It is like taking all one's nutriment from ...
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... thought , and thus enabling the reader to perceive at once the connection and bearing of the several parts . ( 4. ) A large body of explanatory notes , bringing out minuter facts . A few of these , on CHATHAM's early speeches , are from ...
... thought , and thus enabling the reader to perceive at once the connection and bearing of the several parts . ( 4. ) A large body of explanatory notes , bringing out minuter facts . A few of these , on CHATHAM's early speeches , are from ...
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... thought with which a speaker like Burke , amplifies and adorns the discussion , are rejected as un- worthy of the stern severity of the occasion . The eloquence lies wholly in the thought ; and the entire bareness of the expression ...
... thought with which a speaker like Burke , amplifies and adorns the discussion , are rejected as un- worthy of the stern severity of the occasion . The eloquence lies wholly in the thought ; and the entire bareness of the expression ...
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... thought hath affrighted me , and that not only in respect of our dangers from abroad ( which yet I know are great , as they have been often prest and dilated to us ) , but in respect of our disor - serve the dispositions of commanders ...
... thought hath affrighted me , and that not only in respect of our dangers from abroad ( which yet I know are great , as they have been often prest and dilated to us ) , but in respect of our disor - serve the dispositions of commanders ...
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... thought a conception of Spain than begotten here with us . [ Here there was an interruption made by Sır Humphrey May , Chancellor of the Duchy and of the Privy Council , expressing a dislike ; but the House ordered Sir John Eliot to go ...
... thought a conception of Spain than begotten here with us . [ Here there was an interruption made by Sır Humphrey May , Chancellor of the Duchy and of the Privy Council , expressing a dislike ; but the House ordered Sir John Eliot to go ...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ... Chauncey Allen Goodrich Visualização integral - 1870 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
affairs America Arcot argument army authority Begums bill Britain British Burke Burke's called cause character charge colonies Company conduct Constitution court crime Crown debate debt declared defense dignity Duke Duke of Grafton duty East India Bill eloquence enemies England English favor feelings force France friends give Hastings honorable gentleman House of Commons House of Lords inquiry interest Ireland jaghires Junius justice King King's kingdom letter liberty Lord Bute Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord Mansfield Lord North Lord Rockingham Lordships Majesty means measures ment mind minister ministry Nabob nation nature never noble Lord object opinion orator Parliament parliamentary party peace persons Pitt political present pretended prince principles question reason repeal respect revenue right honorable ruin sovereign Spain speak speech spirit Stamp Act thing thought tion trade treaty troops vote Walpole Whig whole
Passagens conhecidas
Página 366 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 10 - Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's...
Página 371 - It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página 290 - My hold of the Colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
Página 138 - That God and Nature have put into our hands ! " What ideas of God and Nature that noble lord may entertain, I know not ; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What ! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and Nature...
Página 271 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Página 274 - ... them, like something that is more noble and liberal. I do not mean, sir, to commend the superior morality of this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it; but I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward.
Página 274 - Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.
Página 368 - You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Página 82 - The heat that offended them is the ardour of conviction, and that zeal for the service of my country which neither hope nor fear shall influence me to suppress. I will not sit unconcerned while my liberty is invaded, nor look in silence upon public robbery.