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" ... the emoluments superfluous to one content with the rest of his industrious fellow-citizens, that his own hands minister to his wants : And as for the power supposed to follow it — I have lived near half a century, and I have learned that power and... "
The Parliamentary Debates - Page 247
by Great Britain. Parliament - 1828
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Great Movements and Those who Achieved Them

Henry James Nicoll - Great Britain - 1881 - 506 pages
...And as for the power supposed to follow it — -I have lived near half a century and I have learned that power and place may be severed. But one power...well no government can give— no change take away !' The immediate result of this speech was the appointment of two commissions, the Common Law Commission...
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Great orators, statesmen, and divines, brief lives with specimens of ...

Great orators - 1881 - 242 pages
...as for the power supposed to follow it,— I have lived nearly half a century, and' I have learned that power and place may be severed. But one power...well no government can give — no change take away. ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.1 We stand in a truly critical position. If we reject the bill through fear...
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Great Movements, and Those who Achieved Them, Volume 20

Henry James Nicoll - Civilization, Anglo-Saxon - 1882 - 514 pages
...And as for the power supposed to follow it — I have lived near half a century, and I have learned that power and place may be severed. But one power...being the advocate of my countrymen here, and their fellow-laborer elsewhere, in those things which concern the best interests of mankind. That power I...
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Outlines of the Art of Elocution

James L. Ohlson - Elocution - 1883 - 154 pages
...and as for the power supposed to follow it, I have lived nearly half a century, and I have learned that power and place may be severed. But one power...things which concern the best interests of mankind. Thaipower, I know full well, no government can give — no change take away ! " — Brougham. The following...
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Oratory, British and Irish: The Great Age (from the Accession of George the ...

Godfrey Locker Lampson - Great Britain - 1918 - 628 pages
...And as for the power supposed to follow it — I have lived near half a century, and I have learned that power and place may be severed. But one power...you, Sir, ' That an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he will be graciously pleased to issue a Commission for inquiring into the...
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The Glory of English Prose: Letters to My Grandson

Stephen Coleridge - Fiction - 1922 - 256 pages
...and as for the power supposed to follow it — I have lived near half a century, and I have learned that power and place may be severed. ' ' But one power...being the advocate of my countrymen here, and their fellow-labourers elsewhere, in those things which concern the best interests of mankind. That power,...
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Letters to My Grandson on the Glory of English Prose

Stephen Coleridge - English language - 1922 - 138 pages
...lived near half a century, and I have learned that power and place may be severed. " But one power 1 do prize ; that of being the advocate of my countrymen here, and their fellow-labourers elsewhere, in those things which concern the best interests of mankind. That power,...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 31

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1831 - 636 pages
...who had rather with the rest of his industrious fellowcitizens make his own hands minister to his own wants ; and as for the power supposed to follow it,...know full well no Government can give — no change can take away." Let the reader stretch his imagination to conceive a manner of delivery to the utmost...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 44

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Literature - 1872 - 996 pages
...the rest have fairly won the praise he claimed for himself when proposing law reform. "One power do I prize — that of being the advocate of my countrymen here, and their fellow-laborer elsewhere, in those things which concern the best interests of mankind." Hi» election...
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