Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 2Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 - 2337 pages |
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... charter of creating the Black Prince Edward prince of Wales , there is a great mystery- for less than an estate of inheritance , so great a prince could not have , and an absolute estate of inheritance in so great a principality as ...
... charter of creating the Black Prince Edward prince of Wales , there is a great mystery- for less than an estate of inheritance , so great a prince could not have , and an absolute estate of inheritance in so great a principality as ...
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... charter , obliged to bring in a great deal of bullion annually to be coined . In the next place , I mean that they should take upon themselves the charge of remittances to our troops abroad . This is a species of dealing from which , by ...
... charter , obliged to bring in a great deal of bullion annually to be coined . In the next place , I mean that they should take upon themselves the charge of remittances to our troops abroad . This is a species of dealing from which , by ...
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... charter , which was as strong and clear , and the right founded upon it as well ascertained as that of any charter could be , that not only a flagrant injustice was done , but that all chartered rights were endangered by the precedent ...
... charter , which was as strong and clear , and the right founded upon it as well ascertained as that of any charter could be , that not only a flagrant injustice was done , but that all chartered rights were endangered by the precedent ...
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... charters of king John and king Henry the third . The things secured by these instruments may , without any deceitful ambiguity , be very fitly called the chartered rights of men . These charters have made the very name of a charter dear ...
... charters of king John and king Henry the third . The things secured by these instruments may , without any deceitful ambiguity , be very fitly called the chartered rights of men . These charters have made the very name of a charter dear ...
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... charters and of their ef fects in terms of the greatest possible moderation ) do at least suspend the natural rights of ... charter of power and monopoly ) which is af- fected by the bill before you . The bill , sir , does , without ...
... charters and of their ef fects in terms of the greatest possible moderation ) do at least suspend the natural rights of ... charter of power and monopoly ) which is af- fected by the bill before you . The bill , sir , does , without ...
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Page 325 - to draw from his guilt the means of relief to the company's distresses." His determination " to make him pay largely for his pardon, or to execute a severe vengeance for past delinquency.
Page 58 - It would be a most unhappy case for the Judge himself, if the prisoner's fate depended upon his directions : — unhappy also for the prisoner ; for if the Judge's opinion must rule the verdict, the trial by jury would be useless.
Page 369 - He is doing, indeed, a great good ; such as rarely falls to the lot, and almost as rarely coincides with the desires, of any man. Let him use his time. Let him give the whole length of the reins to his benevolence. He is now on a great eminence, where the eyes of mankind are turned to him. He may live long, he may do much ; but here is the summit. He never can exceed what he does this day.
Page 209 - Those things which are not practicable are not desirable. There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a welldirected pursuit. There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world. If we cry, like children, for the moon, like children we must cry on.
Page 308 - ... abuse of power upon the power itself. If hoards were made by violence, and tyranny, they were still domestic hoards ; and domestic profusion, or the rapine of a more powerful and prodigal hand, restored them to the people. With many disorders, and with few political checks...
Page 260 - And this soothing hope I draw from the dearest and tenderest recollections of my life, from the remembrance of those attic nights and those refections of the gods which we have spent with those admired and respected and beloved companions who have gone before us; — over whose ashes the most precious tears of Ireland have been shed...
Page 351 - ... shining part of our reports, from whence we have all learned our lessons, if we have learned any good ones ; this man, from whose materials those gentlemen who have least acknowledged it have yet spoken as from a brief; this man, driven from his employment, discountenanced by the directors, has had no other reward, and no other distinction, but that inward " sunshine of the soul," which a good conscience can always bestow upon itself.
Page 369 - He will remember, that obloquy is a necessary ingredient in the composition of all true glory : he will remember, that it was not only in the Roman customs, but it is in the nature and constitution of things, that calumny and abuse are essential parts of triumph.