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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks - Page 51
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The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Illustrated in a ...

Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...sedition or disturbance, almost without complaint, perished by an hundred a day in the streets of Madras; every day seventy at least laid their bodies in the...it with decorum; these details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers ; they...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added, the ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1845 - 558 pages
...granary of India. I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of...it with decorum : these details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers; they...
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Library of Oratory: Embracing Select Speeches of Celebrated ..., Volume 3

Great Britain - 1845 - 554 pages
...granary of India. I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of...it with decorum : these details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers ; they...
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Selections from English prose writers, for translation into Greek and Latin ...

Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...granary of India. I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of...calamities which beset and waylay the life of man, this conies the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself to be nothing...
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Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 2

Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 716 pages
...referred, " which beset and waylay the life of man, this plague of hunger comes the nearest to the human heart ; and is 'that wherein the proudest of us all...nothing more than he is. But I find myself unable," he adds, " to manage it with decorum. These details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine to which is Added, the ...

1851 - 560 pages
...awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of tne circumstances of this plague of hunger. Of all the...it with decorum: these details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers; they...
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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...granary of India. I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, hou diedst. The oar is stopped at once ; he panted...round thy feet is poured thy brother's blood ! The boa aud is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself to be nothing more than he is : but I find...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...granary of India. I was going to awake your justice toward this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of...it with decorum. These details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting i they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers; they...
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The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 608 pages
...granary of India. I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of...it with decorum ; these details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting ; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers ; they...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...granary of India. I was going to awake your justice toward this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of...calamities which beset and waylay the life of man, this conies the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself to be nothing...
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