The orator, a treasury of English eloquence1864 |
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... Ministry . ] omen . incline you to some degree of indulgence towards human frailty . You will not think it unnatural , that those who have an object depending , which strongly engages their hopes and fears , should be somewhat inclined ...
... Ministry . ] omen . incline you to some degree of indulgence towards human frailty . You will not think it unnatural , that those who have an object depending , which strongly engages their hopes and fears , should be somewhat inclined ...
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... Minister of the United States for some time resident in England , is well and familiarly known to the great leaders of opinion amongst us . His " Mount Vernon Papers , " a collection of sketches , relating , as their B 2 name would ...
... Minister of the United States for some time resident in England , is well and familiarly known to the great leaders of opinion amongst us . His " Mount Vernon Papers , " a collection of sketches , relating , as their B 2 name would ...
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... ministers was deep in supplication to the Supreme ; he detailed , no doubt , a great many things which he thought they were in want of , and amongst the rest , a supply of cotton for the famishing people in that district . When he ...
... ministers was deep in supplication to the Supreme ; he detailed , no doubt , a great many things which he thought they were in want of , and amongst the rest , a supply of cotton for the famishing people in that district . When he ...
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... Minister , and asked him whether he would grant the commission I was going to move for . I will say this for him , he appeared to agree with me that it was a reasonable thing . I believe he saw the peril , and that my proposi- tion was ...
... Minister , and asked him whether he would grant the commission I was going to move for . I will say this for him , he appeared to agree with me that it was a reasonable thing . I believe he saw the peril , and that my proposi- tion was ...
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... ministers - Sir John Hob- house had on these occasions always a speech of the same sort . He said this , " With respect to the peculiar urgency of the time , he could not say the honourable gentleman had made out his case ; for he found ...
... ministers - Sir John Hob- house had on these occasions always a speech of the same sort . He said this , " With respect to the peculiar urgency of the time , he could not say the honourable gentleman had made out his case ; for he found ...
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...