Orations of British Orators: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches, Τόμος 1Colonial Press, 1899 - 453 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα iv
... force and intensity of purpose that give them a controlling influence upon the mind : while Lord Digby's speech against Strafford , and the latter's wonderful reply , show that the art of eloquence was hav- ing a new birth after the ...
... force and intensity of purpose that give them a controlling influence upon the mind : while Lord Digby's speech against Strafford , and the latter's wonderful reply , show that the art of eloquence was hav- ing a new birth after the ...
Σελίδα 28
... forces of the French and Scotch Catholics , he suffered imprisonment during nearly two years and his health was much im- paired by the harsh treatment to which he was subjected . On his re- lease in 1548 he went to London and was ...
... forces of the French and Scotch Catholics , he suffered imprisonment during nearly two years and his health was much im- paired by the harsh treatment to which he was subjected . On his re- lease in 1548 he went to London and was ...
Σελίδα 62
... force to confirm our faith as the loss , and sometimes the only fear of losing a little transitory goods , credit , honor , or favor of men - a small calamity , a matter of nothing - to breed a conceit , and such a conceit as is not ...
... force to confirm our faith as the loss , and sometimes the only fear of losing a little transitory goods , credit , honor , or favor of men - a small calamity , a matter of nothing - to breed a conceit , and such a conceit as is not ...
Σελίδα 63
... force of our deceivable imaginations be , as we cannot deny but they are , things that threaten every moment the utter subver- sion of our faith ; faith notwithstanding is not hazarded by these things . That which one sometimes told the ...
... force of our deceivable imaginations be , as we cannot deny but they are , things that threaten every moment the utter subver- sion of our faith ; faith notwithstanding is not hazarded by these things . That which one sometimes told the ...
Σελίδα 78
... forces of oppression were in the ascendant ; and he suffered accordingly . After the dissolution of the Parliament in 1629 , Eliot was arrested , and the charge of conspiracy against the King was brought against him . Under those ...
... forces of oppression were in the ascendant ; and he suffered accordingly . After the dissolution of the Parliament in 1629 , Eliot was arrested , and the charge of conspiracy against the King was brought against him . Under those ...
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Σελίδα 300 - Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth): it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Σελίδα 283 - Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Σελίδα 305 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him,
Σελίδα 365 - It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Σελίδα 193 - And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
Σελίδα 357 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Σελίδα 352 - I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but, that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection...
Σελίδα 139 - Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Σελίδα 359 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources, of descent, of form of government, of religion in the northern provinces, of manners in the southern, of education, of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government — from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up. It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies, and increased with the increase of their wealth: a spirit that, unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England, which, however lawful, is not...
Σελίδα 352 - ... nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see " how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something...