Historical Sketches of Statesmen who Flourished in the Time of George III: To which is Added Remarks on Party, and an Appendix, Svazek 3Lea and Blanchard, 1844 |
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Strana 59
... passages merit of the highest order . Above all , no one acquainted with the conduct of debate can doubt that they are precisely the kind of passages most surely calculated to awaken , to gratify , to control an assembly deliberating on ...
... passages merit of the highest order . Above all , no one acquainted with the conduct of debate can doubt that they are precisely the kind of passages most surely calculated to awaken , to gratify , to control an assembly deliberating on ...
Strana 60
... passage respecting the fête in honour of the Supreme Being is , for a popular Assembly , perhaps too splendid , and might be deemed exaggerated ; but the taste of the speech generally is correct and severe . That he had in various passages ...
... passage respecting the fête in honour of the Supreme Being is , for a popular Assembly , perhaps too splendid , and might be deemed exaggerated ; but the taste of the speech generally is correct and severe . That he had in various passages ...
Strana 61
... passages plainly conduct us ; and I conceive that his great eminence as a speaker and an occasional writer stands en- tirely indisputable . It is known that he owed whatever success we allow him as a speaker , to the indefatigable ...
... passages plainly conduct us ; and I conceive that his great eminence as a speaker and an occasional writer stands en- tirely indisputable . It is known that he owed whatever success we allow him as a speaker , to the indefatigable ...
Strana 67
... passage in which he denounced the Gironde . It follows his sudden retort on the cry that he was playing with Dumouriez the part of Cromwell . The success of that retort appears to have suggested and sus- tained the denunciation : - " Si ...
... passage in which he denounced the Gironde . It follows his sudden retort on the cry that he was playing with Dumouriez the part of Cromwell . The success of that retort appears to have suggested and sus- tained the denunciation : - " Si ...
Strana 69
... passages as the former , in all lan- guages , are hardly possible to translate ; for they are more or less con- versational in their diction , and exceedingly idiomatic . The fustian of the last extract is more easy to render . In a ...
... passages as the former , in all lan- guages , are hardly possible to translate ; for they are more or less con- versational in their diction , and exceedingly idiomatic . The fustian of the last extract is more easy to render . In a ...
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Strana 195 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Strana 128 - I think they have done right in giving exemplary damages; to enter a man's house by virtue of a nameless warrant, in order to procure evidence, is worse than the Spanish inquisition; a law under which no Englishman would wish to live an hour...
Strana 195 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Strana 262 - Would he oblige me? let me only find, He does not think me what he thinks mankind.
Strana 146 - I scarcely ever met with a better companion ; he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge ; but a thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his life stained with every vice, and his conversation full of blasphemy and indecency. These morals he glories in — for shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted. He told us himself, that in this time of public dissension he was resolved to make his fortune.
Strana 126 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason...
Strana 131 - I have suffered myself to be so too long. For some time I have beheld with silent indignation the arbitrary measures of the minister. I have often drooped and hung down my head in council, and disapproved by my looks those steps which I knew my avowed opposition could not prevent. I will do so no longer, but openly and boldly speak my sentiments.
Strana 128 - ... higher jurisdictions should declare my opinion erroneous, I submit, as will become me, and kiss the rod ; but I must say, I shall always consider it as a rod of iron for the chastisement of the people of Great Britain.
Strana 184 - ... ought to be tried, before we give up the republican form altogether; for that mind must be really depraved, which would not prefer the equality of political rights, which is the foundation of pure republicanism, if it can be obtained consistently with order. Therefore, whoever by his writings disturbs the present order of things, is really blameable, however pure his intentions may be, and he was sure Mr. Adams
Strana 203 - Robespierre, whose practice of piety is the murder of his own sovereign, who exhorts all mankind to embrace the same faith, and to assassinate their kings for the honour of God ; — to the friendship of Barrere, who avows in the face of all Europe that the fundamental article of the revolutionary government of France is the ruin and annihilation of the British empire ; — or, finally, to whatever may be the accidental caprice of any new band of malefactors, who, in the last convulsions of their...