The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches in the English Language, Volume 3Thomas Browne (LL.D.) Birch and Small, 1810 - Oratory |
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... Lord Erskine , ) in Defence of the Rev. William David Shipley , Dean of St. Asaph , for a Libel , at the Assizes at Shrewsbury , on the 6th of August , 1784 Speech of John Philpot Curran , Esq . in Defence of Lady Pamela Fitzgerald ...
... Lord Erskine , ) in Defence of the Rev. William David Shipley , Dean of St. Asaph , for a Libel , at the Assizes at Shrewsbury , on the 6th of August , 1784 Speech of John Philpot Curran , Esq . in Defence of Lady Pamela Fitzgerald ...
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... Lord Chief Justice , sums up the Evidence 250 266 Speech of the Hon . Thomas Erskine ( now Lord Erskine ) in Defence of John Stockdale , for a Libel against the House of Commons Opening Speech of Archibald Macdonald , his Ma- jesty's ...
... Lord Chief Justice , sums up the Evidence 250 266 Speech of the Hon . Thomas Erskine ( now Lord Erskine ) in Defence of John Stockdale , for a Libel against the House of Commons Opening Speech of Archibald Macdonald , his Ma- jesty's ...
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... Lord Erskine once observed , " that an independent bar was another fold in the shield of the freedom of the people . " But the case was not so in Spain , for the bishop of Leon , in one of his discourses declared , that if the very ...
... Lord Erskine once observed , " that an independent bar was another fold in the shield of the freedom of the people . " But the case was not so in Spain , for the bishop of Leon , in one of his discourses declared , that if the very ...
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... lord guilty ? His counsel knew too well , they would have mortified his vanity , had they given the smallest reason to doubt the splendour of his achievement . Against any such humiliating suspicion , he had taken the most studious ...
... lord guilty ? His counsel knew too well , they would have mortified his vanity , had they given the smallest reason to doubt the splendour of his achievement . Against any such humiliating suspicion , he had taken the most studious ...
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... lord , to pass his threshold , as his guest . Now the charge which this noble lord builds on this in- discretion is , " thou fool , thou hast confidence in my ho- nor ! and that was a guilty indiscretion - thou simpleton , thou ...
... lord , to pass his threshold , as his guest . Now the charge which this noble lord builds on this in- discretion is , " thou fool , thou hast confidence in my ho- nor ! and that was a guilty indiscretion - thou simpleton , thou ...
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