Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... Robespierre in his report on the 17th of November 1793 says , " with what base hypocrisy the traitors in- sisted on certain pretended insults said to have been offered to our ambassadour ! " Brissot on the other hand replies , “ who has ...
... Robespierre in his report on the 17th of November 1793 says , " with what base hypocrisy the traitors in- sisted on certain pretended insults said to have been offered to our ambassadour ! " Brissot on the other hand replies , “ who has ...
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... Robespierre ; the jacobins charge it upon the Girond- ists ; the Girondists recriminate upon the jacobins ; the mountain thunders it upon the valley , and the val- ley re - echoes it back against the mountain . For my part , I condemn ...
... Robespierre ; the jacobins charge it upon the Girond- ists ; the Girondists recriminate upon the jacobins ; the mountain thunders it upon the valley , and the val- ley re - echoes it back against the mountain . For my part , I condemn ...
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... France has uniformly entertained against that country since the time of her success in the Netherlands . Robespierre lamenting that Dumourier did not invade Holland immediately after the conquest ON AN ADDRESS TO THE KING . 25.
... France has uniformly entertained against that country since the time of her success in the Netherlands . Robespierre lamenting that Dumourier did not invade Holland immediately after the conquest ON AN ADDRESS TO THE KING . 25.
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... Robespierre , to which the convention has subscribed with the warmest zeal . Connected with this is the main and leading maxim upon which their whole system turns . It is expressed in terms which , although originally derived from the ...
... Robespierre , to which the convention has subscribed with the warmest zeal . Connected with this is the main and leading maxim upon which their whole system turns . It is expressed in terms which , although originally derived from the ...
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... Robespierre himself was alarm- ed ; and the jacobin club thought it prudent to de- clare , that under all the existing circumstances they admitted the idea of a God . Apprehensions were entertained that the salutary movement of terrour ...
... Robespierre himself was alarm- ed ; and the jacobin club thought it prudent to de- clare , that under all the existing circumstances they admitted the idea of a God . Apprehensions were entertained that the salutary movement of terrour ...
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Page 427 - If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild and free and humane government; it is the liberty, Lords and Commons...
Page 427 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 449 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Page 387 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Page 464 - And all the rule, one empire ; only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable ; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest : then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.
Page 450 - But he has put to hazard his ease, his security, his interest, his power, even his darling popularity, for the benefit of a people whom he has never seen.
Page 388 - If the advocate refuses to defend, from what he may think of the charge or of the defence, he assumes the character of the judge; nay, he assumes it before the hour of judgment ; and in proportion to his rank and reputation, puts the heavy influence of perhaps a mistaken opinion into the scale against the accused, in whose favor the benevolent principle of English law makes all presumptions, and which commands the very judge to be his counsel.
Page 464 - This having learned, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all the ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all Nature's works, Or works of God in heaven, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world...