 | 1897 - 808 pages
...eloquence in which he concluded what proved, alas ! a vain appeal to the constituency of that day : "And now, gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come,...degree of honest pride on the nature of the charges that are against me. I do not here stand before you accused of venality or of neglect of duty. It is... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 544 pages
...closes this address ; perhaps, the most beautiful specimen, that is extant, of modern eloquence. " And now, gentlemen, on this serious day, " when I...degree of " honest pride, on the nature of the charges that " are against me. I do not here stand before you, " accused of venality, or of neglect of duty.... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 538 pages
...closes this address ; perhaps, the most beautiful specimen, that is extant, of modern eloquence. " And now, gentlemen, on this serious day, " when I...degree of " honest pride, on the nature of the charges that " are against me. I do not here stand before you, " accused of venality, or of neglect of duty.... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 546 pages
...closes this address ; perhaps, the most beautiful specimen, that is extant, of modern eloquence. " And now, gentlemen, on this serious day, " when I come, as it were, to makeup my account " with you, let me take to myself some degree of " honest pride, on the nature of... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 pages
...might wish to read a page or two more — but this is enough for my measure---! have not lived in vain. sunder. There are many other useful amusements of...occasions, have recourse to something rather than suffer t that are against me. I do not here stand before you accused of venality, or of neglect of duty. It... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...might wish to read a page or two more ; but this is enough, for my measure. 1 have not lived in vain. And now, gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come,...degree of honest pride, on the nature of the charges that are against me. I do not here stand before you, accused of venality, or of neglect of duty. It... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pages
...wish to read a page or two more — but this is enough for my measure. — I have not lived in vain. And now, gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come, as it were, to make up my account with yon, let me take to myself some degree of honest pride on the nature of the charges that are again«... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...wish to read a page or two more — but this is enough for my measure. — I have not lived in vain. " And now, Gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come, as it were, to make up my accotmt with you, let me take to myself some degree of honest pride on the nature of the charges that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...might wish to read a page or two more — but this is enough for my measure. I have not lived in vain. And now, Gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come, as it were, to moke up my account with you, let me take to myself some degree of honest pride on the nature of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...might wish to read a page or two more — but this is enough for my measure. I have not lived in vain. u mea 4 that are against me. I do not here eland before you accused of venality, or of neglect of duty. It... | |
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And now, Gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come, as it were, to make up my account with you, let me take to myself some degree of honest pride on the nature of the charges that are against me. I do not here stand before you accused of venality, or... 
