The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches in the English Language; Arranged Under Three Distinct Heads of Popular, Parliamentary, and Judicial Oratory: with Historical Illustrations: to which is Prefixed, an Introduction to the Study and Practice of Eloquence, Volume 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 - Oratory |
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... Attorney - General , against THOMAS PAINE for a Libel , before Lord KENYON , and a Special Jury , GUILDHALL , LONDON , December 18th , 1792 Mr. ERSKINE's ( now Lord ERSKINE ) in Defence of Mr. PAINE Defence of JOHN HORNE TOOKE , Esq ...
... Attorney - General , against THOMAS PAINE for a Libel , before Lord KENYON , and a Special Jury , GUILDHALL , LONDON , December 18th , 1792 Mr. ERSKINE's ( now Lord ERSKINE ) in Defence of Mr. PAINE Defence of JOHN HORNE TOOKE , Esq ...
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... attorney - general . Mr. Lee , late attorney , then solicitor - general , E 4 hold with stating that the affidavit contained no other matter than FORENSIC ELOQUENCE . 55.
... attorney - general . Mr. Lee , late attorney , then solicitor - general , E 4 hold with stating that the affidavit contained no other matter than FORENSIC ELOQUENCE . 55.
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... attorney general of that day , rather more pe- remptorily than my learned friend ( who is much better qualified for that office , and whom I should be glad to see in it ) , told the jury , that they had nothing to do but with the bare ...
... attorney general of that day , rather more pe- remptorily than my learned friend ( who is much better qualified for that office , and whom I should be glad to see in it ) , told the jury , that they had nothing to do but with the bare ...
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... attorney- general , the unmerited praises which he has been pleased to bestow on me , yet I will venture to say , he has done me no more than justice in supposing that in this place , and on this occasion , where I exercise the ...
... attorney- general , the unmerited praises which he has been pleased to bestow on me , yet I will venture to say , he has done me no more than justice in supposing that in this place , and on this occasion , where I exercise the ...
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... Attorney General , will never degrade his excellent character , that he will never disgrace his high magistracy by mean compliances , by an immoderate and unconscientious exercise of power ; yet I am convinced by circumstances which I ...
... Attorney General , will never degrade his excellent character , that he will never disgrace his high magistracy by mean compliances , by an immoderate and unconscientious exercise of power ; yet I am convinced by circumstances which I ...
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Page 491 - That, on every such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of Guilty or Not Guilty upon the whole Matter put in issue upon such indictment or information ; and shall not be required or directed, by the court or judge before whom such indictment or information...
Page 226 - I put it to your oaths ; do you think that a blessing of that kind, that a victory obtained by justice over bigotry and oppression, should have a stigma cast upon it by an ignominious sentence upon men bold and honest enough to propose that measure ? to propose the redeeming of religion from the abuses of the church, the reclaiming of three millions of men from bondage, and giving liberty to all who had a right to demand it — giving, I say, in the so much censured words of this paper, giving
Page 491 - ... upon the whole matter in issue : " BE IT THEREFORE DECLARED AND ENACTED, that, On every Such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon such indictment or information...
Page 1 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world : all things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 285 - Scriptures themselves, might be distorted into libels ; by forsaking the general context, and hanging a meaning upon selected parts: — thus, as in the text put by Algernon Sidney, " The " fool has said in his heart, There is no God...
Page 236 - ... venal sheriffs returned packed juries to carry into effect those fatal conspiracies of the few against the many, when the devoted benches of public justice were filled by some of those foundlings of fortune, who, overwhelmed in the torrent of corruption at an early period, lay at the bottom like drowned bodies, while soundness or sanity remained in them ; but at length becoming buoyant by putrefaction, they rose as they rotted, and floated to the surface of the polluted stream, where they were...
Page 246 - When your sentence shall have sent him forth to that stage which guilt alone can render infamous, let me tell you, he will not be like a little statue upon a mighty pedestal...
Page 237 - ... with an eye that never winks, and a wing that never tires — crowned, as she is, with the spoils of every art, and decked with the wreath of every muse, from the deep and...
Page 308 - ... alloys which belong to them, or live without them. Genius breaks from the fetters of criticism, but its wanderings are sanctioned by its...
Page 308 - From minds thus subdued by the terrors of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason, nor any masterly compositions on the general nature of government, by the help of which the great commonwealths of mankind have founded their establishments ; much less any...