The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best Speeches of the Most Distinguished English, Irish, and Scotch Parliamentary Speakers ... with Notes, Biographical, Critical, and Explanatory, Volume 1William Hazlitt Prior and Dunning, 1810 - Orators |
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... reason of his master's neutrality , caused by a treaty , he kept all other kings and princes in awe . Now , on the contrary , the Valtoline is at liberty ; the war is proclaimed beyond the Alps ; the king of Denmark is in arms , with ...
... reason of his master's neutrality , caused by a treaty , he kept all other kings and princes in awe . Now , on the contrary , the Valtoline is at liberty ; the war is proclaimed beyond the Alps ; the king of Denmark is in arms , with ...
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... reason exprest in the act is , because he had not a revenue to support that dignity together with another reason , that when men are called to honour , and have not livelihood to support it , it induceth great poverty , and causeth ...
... reason exprest in the act is , because he had not a revenue to support that dignity together with another reason , that when men are called to honour , and have not livelihood to support it , it induceth great poverty , and causeth ...
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... reason was , because he thought no man was so wicked as to commit it ; so do we not find recorded to posterity any precedent of former ages , of an act offered to the person of a king , so insolent , so trans- cendant as this ; though ...
... reason was , because he thought no man was so wicked as to commit it ; so do we not find recorded to posterity any precedent of former ages , of an act offered to the person of a king , so insolent , so trans- cendant as this ; though ...
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... reason of that conquest ? Four reasons were given . 1. The king was assisted by good council . 2. There were va- liant men . 3. They were timely supplied . 4. Good employment . In 3 Richard II . the king was environed with Flem- ings ...
... reason of that conquest ? Four reasons were given . 1. The king was assisted by good council . 2. There were va- liant men . 3. They were timely supplied . 4. Good employment . In 3 Richard II . the king was environed with Flem- ings ...
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... reason of the law of the land being committed to the charge of another to open unto you , ) so it is strengthened by many precedents of re- cord.- He then produced twelve precedents , full and directly in the point to prove , that ...
... reason of the law of the land being committed to the charge of another to open unto you , ) so it is strengthened by many precedents of re- cord.- He then produced twelve precedents , full and directly in the point to prove , that ...
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Page 150 - Levites: and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life : that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all. the words of this law and these statutes, to do them : that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left : to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Page 402 - ... receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper, according to the usage of the Church of England...
Page 282 - Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
Page 124 - For what do the enemy say? Nay, what do many say that were friends at the beginning of the Parliament ? Even this, that the members of both houses have got great places and commands, and the sword into their hands ; and, what by interest in Parliament, what by power in the army, will perpetually continue themselves in grandeur, and not permit the war speedily to end, lest their own power should determine with it.
Page 252 - ... parricide. He that was guilty of parricide was beaten with rods upon his naked body till the blood gushed out of all the veins of his body; then he was sewed up in a leathern sack called a culeus, with a cock, a viper, and an ape, and thrown headlong into the sea.
Page 154 - God is my witness, it liath been confirmed to me since, not "a day ago, that the King of Scots hath an Army at the " water's side, ready to be shipped for England. I have it " from those who have been eyewitnesses of it. And, while it " is doing, there are endeavours from some who are not far " from this place to stir up the people of this town into a "tumulting — what if I said into a rebellion?
Page 124 - Therefore, waving a strict inquiry into the causes of these things, let us apply ourselves to the remedy ; which is most necessary. And I hope we have such true English hearts, and zealous affections towards the general weal of our Mother Country, as no Members of either House will scruple to deny themselves, and their own private interests, for the public good ; nor account it to be a dishonour done to them, whatever the Parliament shall resolve upon in this weighty matter.
Page 249 - I think I see the present peers of Scotland, whose noble ancestors conquered provinces, overran countries, reduced and subjected towns and fortified places, exacted tribute through the greatest part of England, now walking in the court of requests, like so many English attornies ; laying aside their walking swords when in company with the English peers, lest their self-defence should be found murder.
Page 424 - Then satires will be wrote by 'way of novels, secret histories, dialogues, or under some 'such title; and thereupon we shall be told, What!
Page 317 - A standing army is still a standing army, whatever name it be called by. They are a body of men distinct from the body of the people; they are governed by different laws; and blind obedience and an entire submission to the orders of their commanding officer is their only principle.