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Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with ... - Page 73
edited by - 1819 - 435 pages
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Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1850 - 492 pages
...instructions, and your suspending clauses, are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole. These things do not make your...the spirit of the English communion that gives all theii life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English constitution, which, infused through...
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The Sixth Progressive Reader, Or Oratorical Class-book: With a Treatise on ...

Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 pages
...sufferances, your cockets and your clearances, are what form the great securities of yonr commerce. These things do not make your government. Dead instruments,...It is the spirit of the English Constitution which, in fused through thfc mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies, every part of the...
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The Literary Reader: Typical Selections from Some of the Best British and ...

George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...instructions, and your suspending clauses, are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole. These things do not make your...through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, inaigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to the mmutest member. Is it not the same...
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Beeton's Public Speaker. A Collection of Specimens of British and Foreign ...

Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 pages
...binds to you the commerce of the colonies ; and, through them, secures to you the wealth of the world It is the spirit of the English Constitution which,...unites, invigorates, vivifies, every part of the empire, down even to the minutest member. Is it not the same virtue which does everything for us here in England...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...instructions, and your suspending clauses, are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole. These things do not make your government. Dead instruments, passive tools ns they arc, it is the spirit of the English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them....
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Centennial Offering: Republication of the Principles and Acts of the ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1876 - 536 pages
...things do not make your government. Dead instruments, passive tools as they are, it is the spirit of English communion that gives all their life and efficacy...infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, invigorates, vivifies, every part of the empire, even down to the minutest members. Is it not the same...
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Centennial Offering: Republication of the Principles and Acts of the ...

Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1876 - 536 pages
...instructions. and your suspending classes are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole. These things do not make your...instruments, passive tools as they are, it is the spirit of English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English constitution...
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...instructions, and your suspending clauses, are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole. These things do not make your...government. Dead instruments, passive tools as they are, 2 This piece and the next are from Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America. They are so good in...
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The Elements of Rhetoric

James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 584 pages
...allusions are frequent in the writings of Burke, and may be illustrated by the following passage : "It is the spirit of the English Constitution which,...invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to its minutest member." The allusion here is to the well-known lines of Virgil : "Spiritus intus alit;...
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English Grammar, Historical and Analytical

Joseph Gostwick - English language - 1878 - 528 pages
...called " the four elements." ' — G. ' He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.' — POPE. ' It is the spirit of the English constitution which,...unites, invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire.' — BURKE. ' Patience and perseverance remove mountains.' — L. MURRAY. 'Charles and Henry are here.'...
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