The Penguin Book of Historic SpeechesBrian MacArthur A companion volume to The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Speeches, this collection of great oratory stretches across the history of powerful and moving, but most of all, memorable speeches, from classical times to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. |
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Page 60
... Parliament . ' A year later Cromwell , needing to raise money to wage war on the Dutch and to obtain a legal basis for his power , was forced to call another Parliament . About 100 radical MPs were excluded from the second Protectorate ...
... Parliament . ' A year later Cromwell , needing to raise money to wage war on the Dutch and to obtain a legal basis for his power , was forced to call another Parliament . About 100 radical MPs were excluded from the second Protectorate ...
Page 117
... Parliament . Wilkes , whose clashes with the King and the Commons established fundamental liberties of the individual and led to the setting up of the Bill of Rights Society - the first to use modern methods of agitation — put his case ...
... Parliament . Wilkes , whose clashes with the King and the Commons established fundamental liberties of the individual and led to the setting up of the Bill of Rights Society - the first to use modern methods of agitation — put his case ...
Page 119
... Parliament may disgrace our records , I humbly move , " That the resolution of this House of the seventeenth of February , 1769 , “ That John Wilkes , Esq . , having been in this session of Parliament expelled this House , was and is ...
... Parliament may disgrace our records , I humbly move , " That the resolution of this House of the seventeenth of February , 1769 , “ That John Wilkes , Esq . , having been in this session of Parliament expelled this House , was and is ...
Contents
Moses Thou shalt not c 1250 BC | 3 |
Jesus of Nazareth Blessed are the poor in spirit c 33 | 23 |
John Ball Cast off the yoke of bondage 1381 | 37 |
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