 My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence...  The orator, a treasury of English eloquence - Page 73by Orator - 1864Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 650 pages
...a lustration ; let them purify this House and this country from this sin. ' My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more ; but my feelings...slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pilluw, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preyusicrous and enormous principles.'... | |
 | 1838 - 596 pages
...lustration — let them purify this House and this country from this sin. * 1 My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and my indignation were too strong to have said less. 1 could not have slept this night in my bed, or have... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1838 - 604 pages
...a lustration — let them purify this House and this country from this sin. 'My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and my indignation were too strong to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, or have... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 488 pages
...indignation were too strong to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, or have reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this...abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles."* There are other celebrated passages of his speeches in all men's mouths. His indignant and contemptuous... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 460 pages
...this sin. " My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more ; but my feelings and my indignation were too strong to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, or have reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous... | |
 | Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 232 pages
...this sin. " My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and my indignation were too strong to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, or have reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 476 pages
...lustration — let them purify this House and this country from this sin. " My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more ; but my feelings and my indignation were too strong to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, or have... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 628 pages
...a lustration ; let them purify this House and this country from this sin. " My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings...abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles." The amendment was rejected by ninety-seven against twentyeight. * Sec anil!, p. 55. it might not be... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 658 pages
...a lustration ; let them pinify this House and this country from this sin. ' My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more ; but my feelings...abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.' — vol. iv- pp. 458, 459. Splendid oratory ; but it was retorted on Lord Chatham — and his friend... | |
 | 1840 - 582 pages
...a lustration ; let them purify this House and this country from this sin. " My lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more ; but my feelings...abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles ! " A circumstance has lately been brought to light, which tends, it must be owned, to diminish our... | |
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