Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... suppose it possible that any person should retain the opinion , that the executive council ever had a sincere intention of relinquishing at any time the pretensions of France to determine the question of the navigation of the Scheldt ...
... suppose it possible that any person should retain the opinion , that the executive council ever had a sincere intention of relinquishing at any time the pretensions of France to determine the question of the navigation of the Scheldt ...
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... suppose that any such person will appear in the course of this debate ; and I must conclude , that these proofs , added to the arguments employed last year , have confirmed the original justice and necessity of the war upon the most ...
... suppose that any such person will appear in the course of this debate ; and I must conclude , that these proofs , added to the arguments employed last year , have confirmed the original justice and necessity of the war upon the most ...
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... suppose to be exempt from suspicion even under all the vigilance and jealousy of a revolu- tionary government ; I mean those who have been acquitted by the previous jury of accusation , or have been declared innocent after a regular and ...
... suppose to be exempt from suspicion even under all the vigilance and jealousy of a revolu- tionary government ; I mean those who have been acquitted by the previous jury of accusation , or have been declared innocent after a regular and ...
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... suppose that you have delayed your deter- mination , not because it was dangerous , but because it was difficult to decide : and indeed , my lords , a firm belief of this difficulty , however undiscoverable by ordinary talents , is so ...
... suppose that you have delayed your deter- mination , not because it was dangerous , but because it was difficult to decide : and indeed , my lords , a firm belief of this difficulty , however undiscoverable by ordinary talents , is so ...
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... suppose a mandamus directed to them requiring them to approve ; how is it possible to make any true return to such writ ? How can any man assign a cause for that rejection which the law requires to be by ballot , and consequently secret ...
... suppose a mandamus directed to them requiring them to approve ; how is it possible to make any true return to such writ ? How can any man assign a cause for that rejection which the law requires to be by ballot , and consequently secret ...
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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...