A Collecton of Speeches by Charles Phillips, Esq: Also, the Petitions Drawn Up by Him at the Request of the Irish Catholics; His Character of Napoleon; His Lines to Mr. Magee... the Critique of the Edinburgh Review, on His Oratory; and His Letter to the Edinburgh Reviewers, in Defence of itW. Hone, 1817 - Speeches, addresses, etc., English |
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... look- ing forward to the most flattering prospects , it was natural for him to select amongst the other sex , some friend who should adorn his fortunes , and deceive his tons . He found such a friend , or thought he found her , in the ...
... look- ing forward to the most flattering prospects , it was natural for him to select amongst the other sex , some friend who should adorn his fortunes , and deceive his tons . He found such a friend , or thought he found her , in the ...
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... look to their surviving parent : -his heart is broken , his mind is in ruins , his very form is fading from the earth . He had one consolation , an aged mother , on whose life the remnant of his fortunes hung , and on whose protection ...
... look to their surviving parent : -his heart is broken , his mind is in ruins , his very form is fading from the earth . He had one consolation , an aged mother , on whose life the remnant of his fortunes hung , and on whose protection ...
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... look is eloquence , their smile is love , their retort is wit , their remark is wisdom - not wisdom bor- rowed from the dead , but that with which nature has herself inspired them an acute observance of the passing scene , and a keen ...
... look is eloquence , their smile is love , their retort is wit , their remark is wisdom - not wisdom bor- rowed from the dead , but that with which nature has herself inspired them an acute observance of the passing scene , and a keen ...
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... looks like bullying us . " Very well : next comes the peace , and then what say our friends the Opposition ? " Oh ! I declare peace is no time ; it looks so like persuading us . " For my part , serious as the subject is , it affects me ...
... looks like bullying us . " Very well : next comes the peace , and then what say our friends the Opposition ? " Oh ! I declare peace is no time ; it looks so like persuading us . " For my part , serious as the subject is , it affects me ...
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... look down upon the elevation to which vice would raise her ! Yes , even were it a throne , I say she might look down on it . There is not on this earth a lovelier vi- sion - there is not for the skies a more angelic candidate than a ...
... look down upon the elevation to which vice would raise her ! Yes , even were it a throne , I say she might look down on it . There is not on this earth a lovelier vi- sion - there is not for the skies a more angelic candidate than a ...
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Page 7 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Page 3 - Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary...
Page 5 - The glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from Popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money and wooden shoes.
Page 3 - Subsidiary to this, there was no creed that he did not profess, there was no opinion that he did not promulgate; in the hope of a dynasty, he upheld the crescent; for the sake of a divorce, he bowed before the cross; the orphan of St.
Page 12 - Of a mere lifeless, violated form: While those whom love cements in holy faith And equal transport, free as Nature live, Disdaining fear. What is the world to them, Its pomp, its pleasure, and its nonsense all! Who in each other clasp whatever fair High fancy forms, and lavish hearts can wish...
Page 10 - It is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no clime destroy, no enemy alienate, no despotism enslave: at home a friend, abroad an introduction, in solitude a solace, in society an ornament; it chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once a grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave — a reasoning savage...
Page 12 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 4 - But if his fortune was great, his genius was transcendent ; decision flashed upon his councils ; and it was the same to decide and to perform. To inferior intellects, his combinations appeared perfectly impossible, his plans perfectly impracticable; but, in his hands, simplicity marked their development, and success vindicated their adoption. His person partook the character of his mind — if the one never yielded in the cabinet, the other never bent in the field.
Page 4 - Such a medley of contradictions, and at the same time such an individual consistency, were never united in the same character. A Royalist— a Republican and an Emperor — a Mahometan — a Catholic and a patron of the Synagogue — a Subaltern and a Sovereign — a Traitor and a Tyrant — a.
Page 13 - Who shall estimate the cost of priceless reputation — that impress which gives this human dross its currency, without which we stand despised, debased, depreciated ? Who shall repair it injured ? Who can redeem it lost ? Oh ! well and truly does the great philosopher of poetry esteem the world's wealth as " trash