 ... if it should happen that your lordships, stripped of all the decorous distinctions of human society, should, by hands at once base and cruel, be led to those scaffolds and machines of murder upon which great kings and glorious queens have shed their...  The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Page 418by Edmund Burke - 1827Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...the decorous distinctions of human society, should, by hands at once base and cruel, be led to those scaffolds and machines of murder, upon which great...felt in the critical moments of their dreadful agony. 1. Upon what occasion did Burke make this celebrated speech ? 2. How long had this trial occupied the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...the decorous distinctions of human society, should, by hnnds at once base and cruels be led to those scaffolds and machines of murder upon which great...persuaded they felt in the critical moments of their dreaded agony ! ... My Lords, if you must fall, may you so fall ! but, if you stand — and stand I... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...the deeorous distinctions of human society, should, by hands at once base and cruel, be led to those scaffolds and machines of murder upon which great...critical moments of their dreadful agony ! My Lords, if you must fall, may you so fall ! but, if you stand, — and stand I trust you will, — together... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...the decorous distinctions of human society, should, by hands at once base and cruel, '« led to those scaffolds and machines of murder upon which great...consolation which I am persuaded they felt in the eritical moments of their dreadful agony ! My Lords, if you must fall, may you so fall ! but, if you... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...the decorous distinctions of human society, should, by hands at once base and cruel, be led to those scaffolds and machines of murder upon which great kings and glorious queens have shed their blood, amid the prelates, the nobles, the magistrales who supported their thrones, may you in those moments... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...the decorous distinctions of human society, should, by hands at once base and cruel, be led to those scaffolds and machines of murder upon which great kings and glorious queens have shed their blood, amid the prelates, the nobles, the magistrates who supported their thrones, may you in those moments... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...clorious queens have shed their blood, amid the prelates, the nobles, the magistrates who supported ibeit thrones, may you in those moments feel that consolation which I am persuade i they felt in the eriti cal moments of their dreadful agony ! * * * "My Lords, if you must... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Orators - 1853 - 972 pages
...murder upon which great kings and glorious queens have shed their blood, amid the prelates, the nobles, the magistrates who supported their thrones, may you...they felt in the critical moments of their dreadful aguny ! * * * '' My Lords, if you must fall, may you so fall ! But if you stand — and stand I trust... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...the decorous distinctions of human society, should, by hands at once base and cruel, he led to those scaffolds and machines of murder upon which great...critical moments of their dreadful agony ! My Lords, if you must fall, may you so full ! but, if you stand, — and stand I trust you will, — together... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1855 - 326 pages
...kings and glorious queens have shed their blood, amidst the prelates, amidst the nobles, amidsf tho magistrates, who supported their thrones — may you,...critical moments of their dreadful agony! My Lords, if you must fall, may you so fall. But if you stand, and stand I trust you will — together with the... | |
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