Opinions of Lord Brougham: On Politics, Theology, Law, Science, Education, Literature, &c., as Exhibited in His Parliamentary and Legal Speeches, and Miscellaneous Writing |
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... attended every evening by an immense concourse of persons , of all ranks , and both sexes , in order to hear the speeches which the two candidates severally addressed to their respective partizans , at the close of each day's poll . Mr ...
... attended every evening by an immense concourse of persons , of all ranks , and both sexes , in order to hear the speeches which the two candidates severally addressed to their respective partizans , at the close of each day's poll . Mr ...
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... attended by a vast concourse of people , to return thanks for her deliverance from " a conspiracy against her honour and life . " During the whole of this celebrated trial , Mr. Brougham's popularity was un- bounded ; crowds of people ...
... attended by a vast concourse of people , to return thanks for her deliverance from " a conspiracy against her honour and life . " During the whole of this celebrated trial , Mr. Brougham's popularity was un- bounded ; crowds of people ...
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... attended to by Natural Theologians . But the main charm of the work , to the general reader , consists in the beauty of its style , the clearness and precision of its reasoning , and the total absence of the assumption of scepticism ...
... attended to by Natural Theologians . But the main charm of the work , to the general reader , consists in the beauty of its style , the clearness and precision of its reasoning , and the total absence of the assumption of scepticism ...
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... attend , in his place in Court , on Circuit , at an early hour in the morning . After having successfully pleaded the cause of his client , he drives off to the bus- tings , and delivers , at different places , eloquent and spirited ...
... attend , in his place in Court , on Circuit , at an early hour in the morning . After having successfully pleaded the cause of his client , he drives off to the bus- tings , and delivers , at different places , eloquent and spirited ...
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... attending the manner of publication are allowed to be given in in evidence , not as any justification , but because they tended to show the motives of the publication . If a member of the House of Commons published his speech , or a ...
... attending the manner of publication are allowed to be given in in evidence , not as any justification , but because they tended to show the motives of the publication . If a member of the House of Commons published his speech , or a ...
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Page 107 - I once before took leave to remind your Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other.
Page 104 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 22 - ... upon that woolsack. What may follow your course of obstinacy, if persisted in, I cannot take upon me to predict, nor do I wish to conjecture. But this I know full well, that, as sure as man is mortal, and to err is human, justice deferred enhances the price at which you must purchase safety and peace ; nor can you expect to gather in another crop than they did who went before you, if you persevere in their utterly abominable husbandry of sowing injustice and reaping rebellion.
Page 166 - ... for proceeding by martial law, may be revoked and annulled; and that hereafter no commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid, lest by colour of them any of your Majesty's subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the laws and franchise of the land.
Page 295 - Scotland, in such outer darkness do they sit, that they support no cathedrals, maintain no pluralists, suffer no non-residence; nay, the poor benighted creatures are ignorant even of tithes. Not a sheaf, or a lamb, or a pig, or the value of a plough-penny do the hapless mortals render from year's end to year's end.
Page 339 - ... the present public seminaries must be enlarged; and some of the greater cities of the kingdom, especially the metropolis, must not be left destitute of the regular means within themselves of scientific education.
Page 22 - As your friend, as the friend of my order, as the friend of my country, as the faithful servant of my sovereign, I counsel you to assist with your uttermost efforts in preserving the peace, and upholding and perpetuating the constitution. Therefore, I pray and exhort you not to reject this measure.
Page 284 - ... perpendicular height, — saw the rocks excavated, and the gigantic power of man penetrating through miles of the solid mass, 'and gaining a great, a lasting, an almost perennial conquest over the powers of nature by his skill and...
Page 22 - It may even be the mace which rests upon that woolsack. What may follow your course of obstinacy, if persisted in, I cannot take upon me to predict, nor do I wish to conjecture. But this I know full well, that, as sure as man is mortal, and to err is human, justice deferred enhances the price at which you...