Brougham
Cited as Brougham. — 18 quotations
Attach
The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
Brutality
The . . . brutalities exercised in war.
Call
[The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.
Contentious
More cheerful, though not less contentious, regions.
Cover
The powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland.
Crisis
The very times of crisis for the fate of the country.
Denounce
To denounce the immoralities of Julius Cæsar.
Differ
I differ with the honorable gentleman on that point.
Emergency
A safe counselor in most difficult emergencies.
Expense
Courting popularity at his party's expense.
Forum
He [Lord Camden] was . . . more eminent in the senate than in the forum.
Instinct
A noble performance, instinct with sound principle.
Law
He found law dear and left it cheap.
Nostrum
The incentives of agitators, the arts of impostors and the nostrums of quacks.
Overissue
An overissue of government paper.
Schoolmaster
Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, -- a person less imposing, -- in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array.
Scourge
To scourge and impoverish the people.
Sensation
The sensation caused by the appearance of that work is still remembered by many.