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" Mr. Speaker, I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over this great consideration. It is good for us to be here. We stand where we have an immense view of what is, and what is past. Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. "
The Life of Samuel Johnson: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides - Page 11
by James Boswell - 1835
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The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 5

1775 - 868 pages
...bafis ; or it is it reaRming weak, rotten, and fophiftical. Mr. Speaker, I cannot prevail on myfelf to hurry over this great consideration. It is good for us to be here. We ItauJ where we have an immenfe view of what is, and what is pall. ClQuds indeed, and darknefs, reft...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 1

David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1804 - 694 pages
...to the original. Gratitude, and a regard to justice, invariably distinguish the truly great mind. " Mr. Speaker, I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over...for us to be here. We stand where we have an immense Ttew of what is, and What is past. Clouds indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however,...
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 1

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1804 - 692 pages
...to the original. Gratitude, and a regard to justice, invariably distinguish the truly great mind. " Mr. Speaker, I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over this great consideration. -If 1C fmr\t\ f" i n- lie fi\ Kit h*»r*i reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened...
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 514 pages
...find sophistical. Mr. Sp.V-.r, I cannot prevail upon myself to hurry over this great consideration. U is good for Us to be here. We stand where we have...indeed,' and darkness rest upon the future. Let us, how ever, before \ve descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our nation*! prosperity...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...America, 1775. VTr. Speaker, I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over the great consideration. It ood ican Book Exchange it is past. Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, ore we descend from...
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The National Orator;: Consisting of Selections, Adapted for Rhetorical ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...understanding. IX. THE COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE OF AMERICA TOEKGLAKB. Extract from the same Speech. •''9 • Mr. Speaker, — I CANNOT prevail on myself to hurry over this great consideration — the value of the trade of America to England. It is good for us to be here. We stand where we have...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pages
...treating them must have this proportion as its basis, or it is a reasoning weak, rotten, and sophistical. Mr. Speaker, I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over...view of what is, and what is past. Clouds, indeed, ¿ml darkness rest upon the future. Let us, howerer, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...treating them must have this proportion as its basis, or it is a reasoning weak, rotten, and sophistical. Mr. Speaker, I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over...for us to be here. We stand where we have an immense liewof what is, and what is past. Clouds, indeed, anil darkness rest upon the future. Let us, howетег,...
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The Elocutionist: Consisting of Declamations and Readings in Prose and ...

Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...on myself to hurry over this great consideration—the value of the trade of America to England. It is good for us to be here. We stand where we have an immense view of what is, and what is past.—Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...Speech on Conciliation w'Uk America, 1775.] Mr Speaker, I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over the f conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes * ...from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober w ¡я past. Clouds, indeed, and darknc>a, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from...
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