Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" Let gentlemen read this speech by day and meditate on it by night; let them peruse it again and again, study it, imprint it on their minds, impress it on their hearts — they will there learn that representation is the sovereign remedy for every evil. "
The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of ... - Page 113
by Charles James Fox - 1815
Full view - About this book

Memoir of the life and character of ... Edmund Burke; with specimens of his ...

Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...its views to Parliamentary Reform, said, " Let gentlemen read this speech by day, and meditate upon it by night ; let them peruse it again and again,...representation was the sovereign remedy for every evil." Lord Erskine also, in a recent speech at Edinburgh, touching on the same theme, observed, "It...
Full view - About this book

Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 67-68

William Cobbett - 1829 - 936 pages
...— " Representation (not the unreal " mockery, but the efficient substance of Ke" presentation) is the sovereign remedy for " • every disorder, the...infallible security against " popular discontent." The motion was seconded by Mr. O'NEIL j Mr. BBNNKTT, of Wiltshire, and Mr. HUMB spoke shortly in favour...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...illustrations of his fancy. Mr. Fox said of it, " Let gentlemen read this speech by day, and meditate upon it by night ; let them peruse it again and again,...representation was the sovereign remedy for every evil." The eloquent warnings of Burke, however, were poured forth in vain. The infatuated ministry...
Full view - About this book

The works of ... Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pages
...illustrations of his fancy. Mr. Fox said of it, '' Let gentlemen read this speech by day, and meditate upon it by night ; let them peruse it again and again,...minds, impress it on their hearts — they would there leam that representation was the sovereign remedy for every evil." The eloquent warnings of Burke,...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 pages
...illustrations of his fancy. Mr. Fox said of it, " Let gentlemen read this speech by day, and meditate upon ns. evil." The eloquent warnings of Burke, however, were poured forth in vain. The infatuated ministry...
Full view - About this book

Memoir of the Life and Character of Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His ...

Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pages
...its views to Parliamentary Reform, said, " Let gentlemen read this speech by day, and meditate upon it by night ; let them peruse it again and again,...representation was the sovereign remedy for every evil." Lord Erskine, also, in a recent speech at Edinburgh, touching on the same theme, observed, "It...
Full view - About this book

Lives of illustrious ... Irishmen, ed. by J. Wills, Volume 5, Part 2

Irishman - 1844 - 254 pages
...twenty years after, said of it, in the house, " Let gentlemen read this speech by day, and meditate upon it by night ; let them peruse it again and again,...imprint it on their minds, impress it on their hearts." Now that the question is settled, and that time has approved the policy of Mr Burke, praise of no mean...
Full view - About this book

The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Illustrated in a ...

Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 pages
...illustrations of his fancy. Mr. Fox said of it, "Let gentlemen read this speech by day, and meditate upon it by night; let them peruse it again and again, study...representation was the sovereign remedy for every evil." Burke's eloquent warnings, however, poured forth in vain. The infatuated ministry had no ear...
Full view - About this book

Life and Times of Sir Robert Peel, Volume 2

William Cooke Taylor - 1851 - 504 pages
...Fox. — ' Representation (not the unreal mockery, but the efficient substance of representation) is the sovereign remedy for every disorder, the infallible security against popular discontent.' " The motion was seconded by Mr. O'Neil, one of the most vehement advocates of Protestant ascendancy,...
Full view - About this book

Pictorial Life of George Washington: Embracing a Complete History of the ...

John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...speech may be learned from the language of Mr. Fox respecting it. "Let gentlemen," he said, " read this speech by day, and meditate on it by night ; let them...their minds, impress it on their hearts. They would then learn that representation was the sovereign remedy for every evil." Dr. Franklin, who was then...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF