 | Guy Carleton Lee - 1900 - 462 pages
...party he was a patriot of the first magnitude ; with the other, the vilest incendiary. For my own part, I consider him merely and indifferently as an English...I contend for the safety and security of the best. God forbid, my Lords, that there should be a power in this country of measuring the civil rights of... | |
 | Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - 1918 - 632 pages
...party he was a patriot of the first magnitude ; with the other the vilest incendiary. For my own part, I consider him merely and indifferently as an English...him, and which the laws alone can take from him. I am moved neither by his private vices, nor by his public merits. In his person, though he were the worst,... | |
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - 1918 - 628 pages
...rights which the laws have given him, and which the laws alone can take from him. I am moved neither by his private vices, nor by his public merits. In his person, though he were the worst, 1 contend for the safety and security of the best ; and God forbid, my Lords, that there should be... | |
 | Zechariah Chafee - 1920 - 452 pages
...have rendered more numerous and more valuable services to liberty than John Wilkes. I. John Wilkes In his person though he were the worst of men, I contend for the safety and security of the best. — LORD CHATHAM. " That name," says Trevelyan, " which was seldom out of the mouths of our great-grandfathers... | |
 | Zechariah Chafee - 1920 - 458 pages
...have rendered more numerous and more valuable services to liberty than John Wilkes. I. John Wilkes In his person though he were the worst of men, I contend for the safety and security of the best.—LORD CHATHAM. " That name," says Trevelyan, " which was seldom out of the mouths of our great-grandfathers... | |
 | Don Cook - 1995 - 446 pages
...party he was a patriot of the first magnitude; with the other the vilest incendiary. For my own part I consider him merely and indifferently as an English...have given him, and which the laws alone can take away from him. I am neither moved by his private vices nor by his public merits. In his person, though... | |
 | Ingrid Sharp, Jane Jordan - 2002 - 388 pages
...character of Mr. Wilkes has very improperly been introduced into this question; for my own part, 1 consider him merely and indifferently as an English...possessed of certain rights which the laws have given him. In his person, though he were the worst of men, / contend for the safety and security of the best;... | |
 | 1887 - 638 pages
...Wilkes, " he is a patriot of the first magnitude, with the other the vilest incendiary. For my own part I consider him merely and indifferently as an English subject, possessed of certain rights which the law has given him, and which the laws alone can take from him." Lord Chancellor Camden declared that... | |
 | 1874 - 796 pages
...the vilest incendiary. Few were found to applaud the rational view of Lord Chatham, and regard him indifferently as an English subject, possessed of certain rights which the laws had given him, and which the laws alone could take from him. '' In his person, though he were the worst... | |
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I mean the House of Commons. With one party he was a patriot of the first magnitude; with the other, the vilest incendiary. For my own part, I consider him merely and indifferently as an English subject, possessed of certain rights which the laws have... 
