The orator, a treasury of English eloquence1864 |
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... use ; himself a divine instrument . Science discovers these laws of power , motion , and transformation ; industry applies them to the raw matter , which the earth yields us in B abundance , but which becomes valuable only by knowledge .
... use ; himself a divine instrument . Science discovers these laws of power , motion , and transformation ; industry applies them to the raw matter , which the earth yields us in B abundance , but which becomes valuable only by knowledge .
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... matter in such discussions than in the manner of saying it ; yet still to say it easily , ad libitum , to be able to say what you choose , and what you have to say , this is the first requisite , to acquire which everything else must ...
... matter in such discussions than in the manner of saying it ; yet still to say it easily , ad libitum , to be able to say what you choose , and what you have to say , this is the first requisite , to acquire which everything else must ...
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... matter on which I look down as from a precipice . It is difficult in itself , and it is rendered more intricate by a great variety of plans of conduct . I do not mean to enter into them . I will not suspect a want of good intention in ...
... matter on which I look down as from a precipice . It is difficult in itself , and it is rendered more intricate by a great variety of plans of conduct . I do not mean to enter into them . I will not suspect a want of good intention in ...
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... matter to those of my worthy constituents who were with me , and they unanimously advised me not to decline it . They told me , that they had elected me with a view to the public service ; and as great questions relative to our commerce ...
... matter to those of my worthy constituents who were with me , and they unanimously advised me not to decline it . They told me , that they had elected me with a view to the public service ; and as great questions relative to our commerce ...
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... matters of discussion . I have never asked a question of a voter on the other side , or supported a doubt- ful vote on my own . I respected the abilities of my managers ; I relied on the candour of the court . I think the worthy ...
... matters of discussion . I have never asked a question of a voter on the other side , or supported a doubt- ful vote on my own . I respected the abilities of my managers ; I relied on the candour of the court . I think the worthy ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
agitation America army authority battle of Waterloo believe British Buonaparte Burke cause character circumstances civil classes conduct consider constitution crimes crown duty effect eloquence empire endeavour enemy England English Europe evil fact favour feel force foreign France French revolution gentlemen give Gulliver's Travels GUSTAVE DORÉ heart honour hope house of Bourbon House of Commons human interest Ireland justice King labour liberty LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS live Lord Lord George Gordon lordships Majesty Majesty's government means Mehemet Ali ment mind minister nation nature never noble object occasion opinion ORATOR Oratory Parliament party peace person political Portugal present Prince Consort principles proposed protection question racter reform republic Russia sentiments slave Spain speak speech spirit taxes things thought throne tion toned paper treaty truth Union virtue Weekly Numbers whole wish
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 6 - But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments?
Seite 73 - My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Seite 24 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Seite 6 - ... Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative, to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Seite 20 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
Seite 25 - ... an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, THAT CLIENT AND NONE OTHER. To save that client by all expedient means, — to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself, — is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm — the suffering — the torment — the destruction — which he may bring upon any other.
Seite 1 - ... we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to accomplish that great end — to which indeed all history points — the realisation of the unity of mankind. Not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics of the different nations of the earth, but rather a unity the result and product of those very national varieties and antagonistic qualities.
Seite 29 - Our inclinations are not in our power, nor should either of us be held answerable to the other because nature has not made us suitable to each other. Tranquil and comfortable society is, however, in our power ; let our intercourse, therefore, be restricted to that...
Seite 84 - My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the purposed ignominy of the scaffold; but worse to me than the...
Seite 62 - FILIAL PIETY !" It is the primal bond of society — it is that instinctive principle, which, panting for its proper good, soothes, unbidden, each sense and sensibility of man ! — it now quivers on every lip ! — it now beams from every eye ! — it is an emanation of that gratitude...