 | American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two sideposts of our door', that he may spare and pass on ; he takes his victims from the castle...all these classes that I make this solemn appeal." Although Mr. Bright is a ready speaker, he is understood (like the great orators of Greece and Коше)... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1856 - 874 pages
...calls at the castle of the noble, the mansion of the wealthy, equally as at the cottage of the humble, and it is on behalf of all these classes that I make...if he be ready honestly and frankly to endeavour, if possible, by the negotiations to be opened at Vienna, to put an end to this war, no word of mine,... | |
 | Books - 1856 - 836 pages
...calk at the castle of the noble, the mansion of the wealthy, equally as at the cottage of the humble, and it is on behalf of all these classes that I make...if he be ready honestly and frankly to endeavour, if possible, by the negotiations to be opened at Vienna, to put an end to this war, no word of mine,... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 434 pages
...slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two sideposts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on ; he takes his victims from the castle...all these classes that I make this solemn appeal.' Although Mr. Bright is a ready speaker, he is understood (like the great orators of Greece and Eome)... | |
 | 1868 - 548 pages
...slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two sideposts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on ; he takes his victims from the castle...all these classes that I make this solemn appeal." — (VoL i. pp. 489-90.) Not only are these speeches valuable as a mere lesson in style ; they should... | |
 | Joseph Irving - 1871 - 1064 pages
...the castle of the noble, and the mansion of (he wealthy, equally as at the cottage of the humble ; and it is on behalf of all these classes that I make...if he be ready honestly and frankly to endeavour, if possible, by the negotiations to be opened at Vienna, to put an end to this war, no wnrd of mine,... | |
 | Joseph Irving - Great Britain - 1871 - 1060 pages
...the wealthy, equally as at the cottage of the humble ; and it is on behalf of all these classes :hat I make this solemn appeal. I tell the noble lord that...if he be ready honestly and frankly to endeavour, if possible, by the negotiations to be opened at Vienna, to put an end to this war, no word of mine,... | |
 | English literature - 1872 - 612 pages
...slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two sidcposts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on ; he takes his victims from the castle...all these classes that I make this solemn appeal.' Although Mr. Bright is a ready speaker, he is understood (like the great orators of Greece and Rome)... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 456 pages
...slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two sideposts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on ; he takes his victims from the castle...all these classes that I make this solemn appeal.' Although Mr. Bright is a ready speaker, he is understood (like the great orators of Greece and Eome)... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 484 pages
...slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two sideposts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on ; he takes his victims from the castle...all these classes that I make this solemn appeal.' Although Mr. Bright is a ready speaker, he is understood (like the great orators of Greece and Borne)... | |
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The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land ; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the firstborn were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two sideposts of our doors, that he may spare and... 
