Orations and Arguments by English and American StatesmenCornelius Beach Bradley Allyn and Bacon, 1894 - 378 страница |
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... House of Brunswick had sat twelve years on the throne of that nation which , 30 by the happy issue of moderate and healing counsels , was to be made Great Britain , he should see his son , Lord Chancellor of England , turn back the ...
... House of Brunswick had sat twelve years on the throne of that nation which , 30 by the happy issue of moderate and healing counsels , was to be made Great Britain , he should see his son , Lord Chancellor of England , turn back the ...
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... the right had been acknowledged in ancient parchments and blind usages to reside in a certain body 35 called a House of Commons . They went much farther ; they attempted to prove , and they succeeded , that 18 Burke .
... the right had been acknowledged in ancient parchments and blind usages to reside in a certain body 35 called a House of Commons . They went much farther ; they attempted to prove , and they succeeded , that 18 Burke .
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... House if this proposal in itself would be received with dislike . I think , Sir , we have few Ameri- can financiers . But our misfortune is , we are too acute , we are too exquisite in our conjectures of the future , for 15 men ...
... House if this proposal in itself would be received with dislike . I think , Sir , we have few Ameri- can financiers . But our misfortune is , we are too acute , we are too exquisite in our conjectures of the future , for 15 men ...
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... House of Commons , gave us at least a House of Commons of weight and consequence . 10 But your ancestors did not churlishly sit down alone to the feast of Magna Charta . Ireland was made immedi- ately a partaker . This benefit of ...
... House of Commons , gave us at least a House of Commons of weight and consequence . 10 But your ancestors did not churlishly sit down alone to the feast of Magna Charta . Ireland was made immedi- ately a partaker . This benefit of ...
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... House to take the same into their consideration , and to enable his Majesty to give them such assistance as may be a proper reward and encouragement . " On the 3d of February , 1756 , the House came to a 30 suitable Resolution ...
... House to take the same into their consideration , and to enable his Majesty to give them such assistance as may be a proper reward and encouragement . " On the 3d of February , 1756 , the House came to a 30 suitable Resolution ...
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Страница 251 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
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Страница 251 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...