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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... "
The Principles of Eloquence: Adapted to the Pulpit and the Bar - Page 184
by Jean Siffrein Maury - 1807 - 275 pages
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 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,...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...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 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,...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...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...enough for my measure. I have not lived in vain. And now, Gentlemen, on this serious day, when I oome, as it were, to make up my account with you, let me...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 negleet of duty. It...
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Select British Eloquence; Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...this » enough for my measure. I have not lived in vain. And now, gentlemen, on this serious day, whet I come, as it were, to make up my account with you, let mo take to myself some degree of tcneu pride on the nature of the charges that are agautt me. I do...
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The Speeches of the Earl of Chatham, the Hon. R.B. Sheridan, Lord Erskine ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 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,...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...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

1854 - 576 pages
..." *&fi to read a pace or two more, — but this is enough fbi my measure. I 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...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1855 - 632 pages
...my measure. — I have not lived in vain. And now, gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come, ss it were, to make up my account with you, let me take...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...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...wish to read a page or two more—hut this is enough for my measure.—I have not lived ID 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...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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,...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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 101

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1857 - 612 pages
...December, 1854, he might have adopted, without the alteration of a word, the noble language of Burke : ' Let me take to myself some degree of honest pride on the nature of the charges that are against me. It is not said that in the long period of my service I have, in a single instance,...
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