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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks - Page 318
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...the hest of their actions, I can shot the hook ; — I might wish to read a page or two more — hut this is enough for my measure. I have not lived in vain. Ami now, Gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come, as it were, to make up my account with you, let...
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...protection to the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the good-will of his countrymen ; if I have thus taken my part with the best of men in the...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...
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Speeches: With Memoir and Historical Introductions

Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...protection to the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the good will of his countrymen ; if I have thus taken my part with the best of men in the...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 against...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1862 - 564 pages
...protection to the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the good will of His countrymen ; if I have thus taken my part with the best of men in the...— I can shut the book ; — I might wish to read a papo or two more, — but this is enough foi my measure. 1 bare not lived in vain. And now, Gentlemen,...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...protection to the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the good-will of his countrymen ;—if I have thus taken my part with the best of men in the...shut the book ;—I 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...
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Works, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 pages
...protection to the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the goodwill of bis countrymen, — if I have thus taken my part with the best of men in the best of their actions, J can shut the book: I might wish to read a page or two more, but this is enough for my measure. I...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...protection to the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the good-will of his countrymen ; — if I have thus taken my part with the best of men in the best of theii actions, I can shut the book ; — I might wish to read a page 0' two more — but this is enough...
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Analytical Fifth-[sixth] Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the ...

Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...protection to the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the good-will of his countrymen ; — if I have thus taken my part with the best of men in the...is enough for my measure. I have not lived in vain. 4. And now, Gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come, as it were, to make up my account with you,...
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Analytical Sixth Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the General ...

Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the good-will of his countrymen; — if I have thug taken my part with the best of men in the best of...is enough for my measure. I have not lived in vain. 4 And now, Gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come, as it were, to make up my account with you,...
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Analytical [-sixth] Reader, Book 6

Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - Readers - 1868 - 510 pages
...protection to the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the good-will of his countrymen ; — if I have thus taken my part with the best of men in the...more — but this is enough for my measure. I have uot lived in vain. 4. And now, Gentlemen, on this serious day, when I come, as it were, to make up...
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