Discourse on the Character and Services of John Hampden: And the Great Struggle for Popular and Constitutional Liberty in His Time, Volumen115Shepherd and Colin, 1845 - 68 páginas |
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... essayed , however imper- fectly executed , may yet serve to invite other minds to the contempla- tion and study of the noble lessons and examples in which the history of that period so richly abounds , far more than CORRESPONDENCE. ...
... essayed , however imper- fectly executed , may yet serve to invite other minds to the contempla- tion and study of the noble lessons and examples in which the history of that period so richly abounds , far more than CORRESPONDENCE. ...
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... period so richly abounds , far more than any feeling of compla- cency in regard to the performance which the Trustees of the College have been pleased , through you , to honour with their approbation , im- pels me to yield obedience to ...
... period so richly abounds , far more than any feeling of compla- cency in regard to the performance which the Trustees of the College have been pleased , through you , to honour with their approbation , im- pels me to yield obedience to ...
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... period , their own bosoms were animated , by assuming for their symbols the names of Hampden and of Sydney - an Institu- tion , in short , which boasts at the head of its first Board of Trustees the name of Patrick Henry , a name to ...
... period , their own bosoms were animated , by assuming for their symbols the names of Hampden and of Sydney - an Institu- tion , in short , which boasts at the head of its first Board of Trustees the name of Patrick Henry , a name to ...
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... period signalized by the struggles of liberty against despotism , of the heroic resistance of the people against their oppres- sors . It was the period which witnessed the long pro- tracted and bitter agony of a seventy years sangui ...
... period signalized by the struggles of liberty against despotism , of the heroic resistance of the people against their oppres- sors . It was the period which witnessed the long pro- tracted and bitter agony of a seventy years sangui ...
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... period , the beginning of the seventeenth century , coincident with the close of the Tudor line of Princes and the accession of the Stu- arts , that a new order of things had evidently arisen among our English ancestors . The revival of ...
... period , the beginning of the seventeenth century , coincident with the close of the Tudor line of Princes and the accession of the Stu- arts , that a new order of things had evidently arisen among our English ancestors . The revival of ...
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Página 28 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 65 - The law is that which puts a difference betwixt good and evil, — betwixt just and unjust. If you take away the law, all things will fall into a confusion. Every man will become a law to himself, which, in the depraved condition of human nature, must needs produce many great enormities. Lust will become a law, and envy will become a law ; covetousness and ambition will become laws; and what dictates, what decisions such laws will produce may easily be discerned in the late government of Ireland!
Página 41 - His carriage throughout this agitation was with that rare temper and modesty, that they who watched him narrowly to find some advantage against his person, to make him less resolute in his cause, were compelled to give him a just testimony.
Página 24 - He sent for the Journals of the House, and with his own hand tore out the pages which contained it. " I will govern," he said, "according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.
Página 28 - There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Página 26 - He was indeed a very wise man, and of great parts, and possessed with the most absolute spirit of popularity, and the most absolute faculties to govern the people, of any man I ever knew.
Página 27 - He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or wearied by the most laborious; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts...
Página 32 - that he could be content to lend as well as others, but feared to draw upon himself that curse in Magna Charta which should be read twice a year against those who infringe it.
Página 49 - Westminster in hcec verba, etc., in the whole and in every part of them are against the Laws of the Realm, the Right of Property, and the Liberty of the Subjects, and contrary to former resolutions in Parliament, and to the Petition of Right.
Página 55 - Abner's young men, had catched at each other's locks, and sheathed our swords in each other's bowels, had not the sagacity and great calmness of Mr. Hampden by a short speech prevented it, and led us to defer our angry debate until the next morning.