| William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 496 pages
...celebrated writings of antiquity have I often admired the patriotism of Greece and Home ; hut, my lords, I must declare and avow, that,, in the master-states of the world, I know not the people, or the senate, who, in such a complication of difficult circumstances, can stand in preference to the... | |
| Caleb Bingham - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1807 - 312 pages
...PARLIAMENT, JAN. 20, 1775. • , ' of difficult circumstances, no natioo, or body of ineu WHEN your lordships look at the papers transmitted to us from America...own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation, (and it has been my favorite study : I have read Thucidyd«8, and have... | |
| Thomas Campbell - Great Britain - 1807 - 556 pages
...alliance of God and nature, immutable, eternal, fixed as the firmament of heaven. ' When your lordships look at the papers transmitted to us from America...your own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that all my reading and observation — and history has CHAP, been my favourite study, — all that I have... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...qu'il ne me prenne ;" — Pm afraid he'll take me. When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America ; when you consider their decency,...own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation— and it has been my favourite study — I have read Thucidydes and... | |
| John Almon - 1810 - 380 pages
...qu'il ne me prenne;" — I'm afraid he'll take me. ' When your Lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America ; when you consider their decency,...own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — and it has been my favourite study — I have read Thucidydesj and... | |
| John Almon - 1810 - 378 pages
...ne me prenne;" — I'm afraid he'll take me. . ' When your Lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America ; when you consider their decency,...own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — and it has been my favourite study— I have read Thucidydes, and... | |
| Caleb Bingham - Elocution - 1811 - 316 pages
...omnes. EXTRACT FROM MR. PITT'S SPEECH IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT, JAN. 20, 1775. WHEN your lordships look at the papers transmitted to us from America;...consider their decency, firmness and wisdom, you cannot buf * respect their cause and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...qu'il ne me prenne;' *-l'm afraid he'll take me. " When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America; when you consider their decency,...own. For myself, I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — and it has been my favourite study — I bave read Thucydides, and... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...the American name. " When," said the elder Pitt, " when your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America — when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect 1 their cause, and wish to make it your own. For myself, I must declare and avow that in all my reading... | |
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