Speeches of Henry Lord Brougham, Upon Questions Relating to Public Rights, Duties, and Interests: With Historical Introductions, and a Critical Dissertation Upon the Eloquence of the Ancients, 2. köideA. and C. Black, 1838 |
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... place must be assigned to Gran- ville Sharp , than whom a purer spirit never resided in the human form . With a perseverance which is only. * Robertson's America . * Lords Grenville and Grey . + Mr. Wilberforce . 4 INTRODUCTION .
... place must be assigned to Gran- ville Sharp , than whom a purer spirit never resided in the human form . With a perseverance which is only. * Robertson's America . * Lords Grenville and Grey . + Mr. Wilberforce . 4 INTRODUCTION .
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... human form . With a perseverance which is only not unexampled because it set an example afterwards followed by other labourers in the same cause ; with a benevolence which was quite universal , and made the aspect of human suffering so ...
... human form . With a perseverance which is only not unexampled because it set an example afterwards followed by other labourers in the same cause ; with a benevolence which was quite universal , and made the aspect of human suffering so ...
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... humanity , which should have illustrated his name , who , in its defence , had raised all the strains of his eloquence to their very highest pitch . Notwithstanding the act of 1807 had made the Slave Trade illegal after the 1st of ...
... humanity , which should have illustrated his name , who , in its defence , had raised all the strains of his eloquence to their very highest pitch . Notwithstanding the act of 1807 had made the Slave Trade illegal after the 1st of ...
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... human beings , illegally held in bondage , and in not one of whom could there by law be any kind of property claimed , full compensation , at the rate of £ 53 each , has been allowed by the Commissioners , and paid by the people of this ...
... human beings , illegally held in bondage , and in not one of whom could there by law be any kind of property claimed , full compensation , at the rate of £ 53 each , has been allowed by the Commissioners , and paid by the people of this ...
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... humanity at large ; I trust that it will , nevertheless , receive the same favourable consideration which it has so often experienced upon former occasions . The question I purpose to submit to the House is , Whether any , and what ...
... humanity at large ; I trust that it will , nevertheless , receive the same favourable consideration which it has so often experienced upon former occasions . The question I purpose to submit to the House is , Whether any , and what ...
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Page 573 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 284 - I thank you for the patience with which you have listened to me, and on which I have unwillingly trespassed so long.
Page 88 - And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
Page 486 - But how much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say that he found law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book — left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich — left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression — left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence...
Page 62 - ... for proceeding by martial law, may be revoked and annulled; and that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid, lest by colour of them any of your Majesty's subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the laws and franchise of the land.
Page 222 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 487 - That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he will be graciously pleased to issue a commission for inquiring into the defects occasioned by time or otherwise, in the laws of this realm, and into the measures necessary for removing the same.
Page 206 - ... expedient that all such Persons should be manumitted and set free, and that a reasonable Compensation should be made to the Persons hitherto entitled to the services of such Slaves for the Loss which they will incur by being deprived of their Right to such Services : And...
Page 89 - Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and .beast from it: though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God.
Page 624 - ... of law founded upon injustice. Spring came, but no ethereal mildness was its harbinger, or followed in its train — the Catholics became stronger by every month's delay, displayed a deadlier resolution, and proclaimed their wrongs in a tone of louder defiance than before. And what course did you, at this moment of greatest excitement, and peril, and menace, deem it most fitting to pursue ? Eight months before you had been told how unworthy it would be to yield when men clamoured and threatened....