Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III: To which is Added Remarks on Party and an Appendix, Volume 2 |
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... Learned Bench , to defend and support the justice of their country . I call upon the Bishops to interpose the unsullied sanctity of their lawn , upon the learned Judges to interpose the purity of their ermine , to save us from this ...
... Learned Bench , to defend and support the justice of their country . I call upon the Bishops to interpose the unsullied sanctity of their lawn , upon the learned Judges to interpose the purity of their ermine , to save us from this ...
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... learned fancy of Burke , the unbridled licence of invective in which the young blood of Fox nightly boiled over , the epigrams of Barrè , the close reasoning and legal subtlety of Dunning , the broad humour and argumentary sarcasm of ...
... learned fancy of Burke , the unbridled licence of invective in which the young blood of Fox nightly boiled over , the epigrams of Barrè , the close reasoning and legal subtlety of Dunning , the broad humour and argumentary sarcasm of ...
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... learned Judge himself ; and we have thus in the first place the means of determining how far the contemporary opinions upon that production itself were well founded , and next how far the admiration excited by the other efforts of the ...
... learned Judge himself ; and we have thus in the first place the means of determining how far the contemporary opinions upon that production itself were well founded , and next how far the admiration excited by the other efforts of the ...
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... learned individuals became ruffled ; and , impatient of cri- ticism upon their reasonings , instead of rather courting a discussion of them , they adopted the evil method of returning their answers or certificates without any reasons at ...
... learned individuals became ruffled ; and , impatient of cri- ticism upon their reasonings , instead of rather courting a discussion of them , they adopted the evil method of returning their answers or certificates without any reasons at ...
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... learned personages had come forth from the re- cesses where doctors " most do congregate , " but in which they divide with their ponderous tomes the silence that is not broken by any stranger footstep , and the gloom that is pierced by ...
... learned personages had come forth from the re- cesses where doctors " most do congregate , " but in which they divide with their ponderous tomes the silence that is not broken by any stranger footstep , and the gloom that is pierced by ...
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Page 20 - 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.
Page 18 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 21 - ... man, woman, and child ! to send forth the infidel savage — against whom ? Against your Protestant brethren ; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name, with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war! — hellhounds, I say, of savage war.
Page 21 - I call upon the honour of your Lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character.
Page 21 - ... the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution. From the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble Lord frowns with indignation at THE DISGRACE OF HIS COUNTRY...
Page 19 - Those Iron Barons (for so I may call them when compared with the Silken Barons of modern days), were the Guardians of the People; yet their virtues, my Lords, were never engaged in a question of such importance as the present. A breach has been made in the Constitution — the battlements are dismantled — the citadel is open to the first invader — the walls totter — the Constitution is not tenable.
Page 81 - A species of men to whom a state of order would become a sentence of obscurity, are nourished into a dangerous magnitude by the heat of intestine disturbances ; and it is no wonder that, by a sort of sinister piety, they cherish, in their turn, the disorders which are the parents of all their consequence.
Page 20 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts; they must be repealed — you will repeal them; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally, repealed.
Page 21 - I know not what ideas that lord may entertain of God and nature; but I know that such abominable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature to the massacres of the Indian...
Page 21 - Indian scalpingknife— to the cannibal savage torturing, murdering, roasting, and eating; literally, my Lords, eating the mangled victims of his barbarous battles! Such horrible notions shock every precept of religion, divine or natural, and every generous feeling of humanity. And, my Lords, they shock every sentiment of honour; they shock me as a lover of honourable war, and a detester of murderous barbarity. ' These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most...