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" I bent the whole force of my mind to, was the reduction of that corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality and of all disorder ; which loads us more than millions of debt, which takes away vigour from our arms, wisdom from... "
The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when at the Bar ... - Page 169
by Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1810
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The Cyclopedia of Oratory: A Handbook of Authorities on Oratory as an Art ...

W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 pages
...Corruption and Disorder— Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder ; which loads us more than millions of debt ; which takes away vigor from Burke, Edmund — Continued our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority...
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Memoirs of King George the Third: His Life and Reign, Volume 3

John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1902 - 556 pages
...had not only taken away all vigour from our arms, and all wisdom from our counsels, but had stripped every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of the Constitution. Burke's speech on this occasion is said to have been grand almost beyond precedent...
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An Introduction to the English Historians

Charles Austin Beard - Great Britain - 1906 - 766 pages
...prodigality and of all disorder, which loads us more than millions of debt, which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every...from the most venerable parts of our constitution." On the 6th April MR Dunning moved resolutions, in a committee of the whole House, founded upon these...
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An Introduction to the English Historians

Charles A. Beard, Charles Austin Beard - Great Britain - 1906 - 774 pages
...reduction of that corrupt influence which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality and of all disorder, which loads us more than millions of debt, which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...of all prodigality, and of all disorder ; it loads us more than millions of debt ; takes away vigor ol of Himself, and becomes their willing agent ; and...mysteries are solved, and the record of all lives — Burke.. The corruptions of the country are closely allied to those of the town, wilh no difference...
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A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ...

Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 772 pages
...of all disorder ; it loads us more tlian millions of debt ; takes awuy vigor from our arms, wiadoni ill` V0 — llurk?. The corruptions of the country are cloHely allied to those of the town, wiih no difference...
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The Life and Writings of Thomas Paine: Containing a Biography, Volume 1

Thomas Paine, Thomas Clio Rickman - 1908 - 476 pages
...the reduction of that corrupt influence which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality and disorder; which loads us more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most...
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Forbes, Volume 67

Bertie Charles Forbes - Business - 1951 - 626 pages
...spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every...from the most venerable parts of our constitution. — BURKE. Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every...
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Oratory, British and Irish, the Great Age (from the Accession of George the ...

Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1918 - 632 pages
...reduction of that corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder ; which loads us, more than millions of debt ; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most...
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A History of Labour

Gilbert Stone - Great Britain - 1922 - 424 pages
...of a speech of the utmost grandeur, to cure the State of a disorder "which," to quote the orator, " loads us more than millions of debt ; which takes...from the most venerable parts of our constitution," * was due to motives the strength of which he perfectly appreciated. Very few men of great families...
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