The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches in the English Language, Volume 1Thomas Browne (LL.D.) Birch and Small, 1810 - Oratory |
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... corruption of genius , and of the decay of sublimity , are accurately described . But I beg leave to recommend it to the attention of every tutor ; and I hope that honest zeal will prompt him to infuse its spirit into his pupils , and ...
... corruption of genius , and of the decay of sublimity , are accurately described . But I beg leave to recommend it to the attention of every tutor ; and I hope that honest zeal will prompt him to infuse its spirit into his pupils , and ...
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... Corruption imagined , indeed , that she had found defects in this statesman , and talked much of the inconsis- tency of his glory , and much of the ruin of his victories ; but the history of his country , and the calamities of the enemy ...
... Corruption imagined , indeed , that she had found defects in this statesman , and talked much of the inconsis- tency of his glory , and much of the ruin of his victories ; but the history of his country , and the calamities of the enemy ...
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... corruption with such an example before me , to have to boast that I never in my life gave one vote in Parliament that was not on the side of freedom , is the congratulation that attends the retrospect of my public life . His friendship ...
... corruption with such an example before me , to have to boast that I never in my life gave one vote in Parliament that was not on the side of freedom , is the congratulation that attends the retrospect of my public life . His friendship ...
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... corruption of the inferior magis- trates , from which it arose . He took care to have his nobility instructed in letters and the laws : he chose the earls and sheriffs from among the men most celebrated for probity and knowledge : he ...
... corruption of the inferior magis- trates , from which it arose . He took care to have his nobility instructed in letters and the laws : he chose the earls and sheriffs from among the men most celebrated for probity and knowledge : he ...
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... corruption , which imposed a necessity upon gentlemen to enlarge their ex- penses , in order to preserve their ancient and established interests in their respective counties ; and the impunity , which the practice of bribery and corruption ...
... corruption , which imposed a necessity upon gentlemen to enlarge their ex- penses , in order to preserve their ancient and established interests in their respective counties ; and the impunity , which the practice of bribery and corruption ...
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Page 72 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th...
Page 108 - But, his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living.
Page 53 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing: It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
Page 205 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Page 54 - Pale Hecate's offerings ; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Page 130 - ... to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity.
Page 53 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Page 130 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe,— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Page 109 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest — that of the whole : where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.
Page 206 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war! — And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.