Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with Biographical Notices, and a PrefaceCharles Phillips |
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... attempt , an under . taking that would ennoble the flights of the highest genius , and obtain pardon for the efforts of the meanest under- standing . Struggling a good while with these thoughts , by degrees I felt myself more firm . I ...
... attempt , an under . taking that would ennoble the flights of the highest genius , and obtain pardon for the efforts of the meanest under- standing . Struggling a good while with these thoughts , by degrees I felt myself more firm . I ...
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... attempt to separate them would tear to pieces the contexture of the whole ; and if not entirely destroy , would very much depreciate the value of all the parts . I therefore consider these three denominations to be , what in effect they ...
... attempt to separate them would tear to pieces the contexture of the whole ; and if not entirely destroy , would very much depreciate the value of all the parts . I therefore consider these three denominations to be , what in effect they ...
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... attempt to mend it ; and our sin far more salutary than our penitence . These , Sir , are my reasons for not entertaining that high opinion of untried force , by which many gentle- men , for whose sentiments in other particulars I have ...
... attempt to mend it ; and our sin far more salutary than our penitence . These , Sir , are my reasons for not entertaining that high opinion of untried force , by which many gentle- men , for whose sentiments in other particulars I have ...
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... attempt to wrest from them by force , or shuffle from them by chicane , what they think the only advantage worth living for . This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the ...
... attempt to wrest from them by force , or shuffle from them by chicane , what they think the only advantage worth living for . This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the ...
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... attempted to prove , and they succeeded , that in theory it ought to be so , from the particular nature of a House of Commons , as an immediate representative of the people ; whether the old records had delivered this oracle or not ...
... attempted to prove , and they succeeded , that in theory it ought to be so , from the particular nature of a House of Commons , as an immediate representative of the people ; whether the old records had delivered this oracle or not ...
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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.