Library of Oratory: Embracing Select Speeches of Celebrated Orators of America, Ireland, and England, Volume 3E.C. & J. Biddle, 1845 |
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... thought or ever dreamed of robbing the colonies of their constitutional rights . That was reserved to mark the era of the late administration : not that there were wanting some , when I had the honor to serve his majesty , to propose to ...
... thought or ever dreamed of robbing the colonies of their constitutional rights . That was reserved to mark the era of the late administration : not that there were wanting some , when I had the honor to serve his majesty , to propose to ...
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... thought it the duty of this house , as the great hereditary coun- cil of the crown , to state to his majesty the distracted condi- tion of his dominions , together with the events which had de- stroyed unanimity among his subjects . But ...
... thought it the duty of this house , as the great hereditary coun- cil of the crown , to state to his majesty the distracted condi- tion of his dominions , together with the events which had de- stroyed unanimity among his subjects . But ...
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... thought the slavish doctrine of passive obedience had long since been exploded ; and , when our kings were obliged to confess that their title to the crown , and the rule of their government , had no other foundation than the known laws ...
... thought the slavish doctrine of passive obedience had long since been exploded ; and , when our kings were obliged to confess that their title to the crown , and the rule of their government , had no other foundation than the known laws ...
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... thought a wise poet and a wise man in political sagacity ; the friend of Mecænas , and the eulogist of Augustus . To him , the adopted son and successor of the first Cæsar , to him , the inaster of the world , he wisely urged this ...
... thought a wise poet and a wise man in political sagacity ; the friend of Mecænas , and the eulogist of Augustus . To him , the adopted son and successor of the first Cæsar , to him , the inaster of the world , he wisely urged this ...
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... thought of . Terms are to be offered . Who are the persons that are to treat on the part of this afflicted and deluded country ? The very men who have been the authors of our misfortunes . The very men who have endeavored , by the most ...
... thought of . Terms are to be offered . Who are the persons that are to treat on the part of this afflicted and deluded country ? The very men who have been the authors of our misfortunes . The very men who have endeavored , by the most ...
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Página 36 - 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!
Página 481 - ... 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. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Página 351 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 481 - Is it not the same virtue which does everything for us here in England? Do you imagine then that it is the Land Tax Act which raises your revenue, that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply which gives you your army? or that it is the Mutiny Bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No! surely no! 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...
Página 480 - 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 32 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Página 92 - When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance of British liberty; are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our Constitution? Are we to give them our weakness for their strength; our opprobrium for their glory; and the slough of slavery, which we are not able to work off, to serve them for their freedom?
Página 36 - You cannot, my 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.
Página 86 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
Página 351 - ... it argues in what good plight and constitution the body is ; so when the cheerfulness of the people is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs, and wax young again, entering the glorious ways of truth and...