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The British Cicero (Volume 1); 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 Introduc

The British Cicero (Volume 1); 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 Introduc


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1810 Excerpt: ... know, that the machine of a free constitution is no simple thing; but as intricate, and as delicate, ast is valuable. We are members in a great and ancient monarchy; and we must preserve religiously the true legal rights of the sovereign, which form the key-stone that binds together the noble and well-constructed arch of our empire and our constitution. A constitution made up of balanced powers must ever be a critical thing. As such I mean to touch that part of it which comes within my reach. I know my inability, and I wish for support from every quarter. In particular I shall aim at the friendship, and shall cultivate the best correspondence, of the worthy colleague you have given me. "I trouble you no farther than once more to thank you all; you, gentlemen, for your favors; the candidates, for their temperate and polite behaviour; and the sheriffs for a conduct which may give a model for all who arc in public stations." Mr. BURKE'S SPEECHES TO THE ELECTORS OF BRISTOL, In 1780. HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. In the course of Mr. Burke's parliamentary exertions for the six years that he represented Bristol, he had the misfortune to shock in many instances the political and commercial, as well as the religious prejudices of his constituents, particularly by his support of certain resolutions favorable to the trade of Ireland; by his mode of proceeding on Lord Beauchamp's bill for reforming the law process concerning imprisonment; and by his votes on the popery acts. It is probable that his written and printed defences of those measures would have softened the asperity of some of the prejudices; but the frantic tumults about popery, in the year 1/80, kindled a blaze which it was not in the power of his eloquence to extinguish A proclamation for dissolving the parl...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781153931731
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 154
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1153931737
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 340 gr


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