Selections from the Speeches and Writings of the Right Honourable Henry, Lord Brougham & Vaux, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain: With a Brief Memoir of His Lordship's Life |
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Page 69
... look beyond the sphere of personal interest , makes their hearts beat high , and stretches out their arms for the glory and the advantage of their country . There is no more degrading effect of despotism , than that it limits the ...
... look beyond the sphere of personal interest , makes their hearts beat high , and stretches out their arms for the glory and the advantage of their country . There is no more degrading effect of despotism , than that it limits the ...
Page 82
... look at " Heaven , and that they might do the purposes of unjust judgments . " But they , though giving a clear , consistent , uncontradicted story , were disappointed , and their victim was rescued from their gripe , by the trifling ...
... look at " Heaven , and that they might do the purposes of unjust judgments . " But they , though giving a clear , consistent , uncontradicted story , were disappointed , and their victim was rescued from their gripe , by the trifling ...
Page 109
... looks at a second time , is unfavourable to the acquisition of solid and permanent in- formation . Happily , the time is past and gone , when bigots could persuade mankind that the lights of philosophy were to be extinguished as dan ...
... looks at a second time , is unfavourable to the acquisition of solid and permanent in- formation . Happily , the time is past and gone , when bigots could persuade mankind that the lights of philosophy were to be extinguished as dan ...
Page 112
... look back on this place with repentance or with shame ; and be well assured that , whatever time - ay , every hour you squander here on unprofitable idling , will then rise up against you , and be paid for by years of bitter but ...
... look back on this place with repentance or with shame ; and be well assured that , whatever time - ay , every hour you squander here on unprofitable idling , will then rise up against you , and be paid for by years of bitter but ...
Page 113
... look down upon the ignorance and error that surround you , not with lofty and supercilious contempt , as the sages of old times , but with the vehement desire of enlightening those who wander in darkness , and who are by so much the ...
... look down upon the ignorance and error that surround you , not with lofty and supercilious contempt , as the sages of old times , but with the vehement desire of enlightening those who wander in darkness , and who are by so much the ...
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