Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with Biographical Notices, and a PrefaceCharles Phillips |
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... person upon the contracted scale of private in- formation . But though I do not hazard any thing ap proaching to a censure on the motives of former parliaments to all those altérations , one fact is undoubted ; that under them the state ...
... person upon the contracted scale of private in- formation . But though I do not hazard any thing ap proaching to a censure on the motives of former parliaments to all those altérations , one fact is undoubted ; that under them the state ...
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... leveller ; and there are occasions when any , even the slightest chance of doing good , must be laid hold on , even by the most incon- siderable person . To restore order and repose to an empire so great 6 IRISH ELOQUENCE .
... leveller ; and there are occasions when any , even the slightest chance of doing good , must be laid hold on , even by the most incon- siderable person . To restore order and repose to an empire so great 6 IRISH ELOQUENCE .
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... person , at your bar * . This gentleman , after thirty - five years it is so long since he first appeared at the same place to plead for the commerce of Great Britain - has come again before you to plead the same cause , without any ...
... person , at your bar * . This gentleman , after thirty - five years it is so long since he first appeared at the same place to plead for the commerce of Great Britain - has come again before you to plead the same cause , without any ...
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... person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery . I think it is nearly as little in our power to change ... persons who are best read in their privileges . It would be no less impracti- cable to think of wholly annihilating ...
... person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery . I think it is nearly as little in our power to change ... persons who are best read in their privileges . It would be no less impracti- cable to think of wholly annihilating ...
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... person , who has no superior , is hardly any better than speaking nonsense . Now , in such unfortunate quarrels , among the component parts of a great political union of communities , I can scarcely conceive any thing more completely ...
... person , who has no superior , is hardly any better than speaking nonsense . Now , in such unfortunate quarrels , among the component parts of a great political union of communities , I can scarcely conceive any thing more completely ...
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Page 74 - But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master principles, which, in the opinion of such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 17 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Page 17 - Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of Polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the Poles.
Page 72 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood...
Page 73 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Page 73 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have ; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience.
Page 21 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered, in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound.
Page 39 - I am restoring tranquillity ; and the general character and situation of a people must determine what sort of government is fitted for them.
Page 17 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy; and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem aud admiration.
Page 73 - Do not dream that your letters of office, and your instructions, and your suspending clauses, are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole.