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Page 380 - I have but one request to ask, at my departure from this world; it is the charity of its silence.
Page 147 - No man can serve two masters : for he will either hate the one and love the other ; or he will cleave to the one and despise the other ; ye cannot serve God and Mammon,
Page 380 - You do me honor over-much : you have given to the subaltern all the credit of a superior. There are men engaged in this conspiracy, who are not only superior to me, but even to your own conceptions of yourself, my lord ; men, before the...
Page 380 - When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.
Page 380 - By you, too, who if it were possible to collect all the innocent blood that you have shed in your unhallowed ministry, in one great reservoir, your lordship might swim in it.
Page 240 - Kingston, had I but served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 383 - ... it protects. As well might the frantic suicide hope that the act which destroys his miserable body should extinguish his eternal soul.
Page 382 - Europe against a friend and an ally in the hour of her calamity and distress — at a moment when our country is filled with British troops — when the loyal men of Ireland are fatigued...
Page 367 - Majesty that it is not by tem-porary expedients, but by a free trade alone, that this nation is now to be saved from impending ruin.
Page 382 - The threat was proceeded on, the peerage was sold, the caitiffs of corruption were everywhere ; in the lobby, in the street, on the steps, and at the door of every parliamentary leader, whose thresholds were worn by the members of the. then administration, offering titles to some, amnesty to others, and corruption to all.