Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, المجلد 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... stand at the very outset ; and boldly refuses all parliamentary in- formation . Let him admit but one step towards in- quiry , and he is undone . You must be ignorant , or he cannot be safe . But before his curtain is let down , and the ...
... stand at the very outset ; and boldly refuses all parliamentary in- formation . Let him admit but one step towards in- quiry , and he is undone . You must be ignorant , or he cannot be safe . But before his curtain is let down , and the ...
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... standing authority for all the claims which the ministry has thought fit to provide for- the grand debtor - the nabob of Arcot himself . Hear that prince , in the letter written to the court of direc- tors , at the precise period ...
... standing authority for all the claims which the ministry has thought fit to provide for- the grand debtor - the nabob of Arcot himself . Hear that prince , in the letter written to the court of direc- tors , at the precise period ...
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... stand the fairest of the whole ; for whatever may be my suspicions concern- ing a part of it , I can convict it of nothing worse than the most enormous usury . But I can convict upon the spot the right honourable gentleman , of the most ...
... stand the fairest of the whole ; for whatever may be my suspicions concern- ing a part of it , I can convict it of nothing worse than the most enormous usury . But I can convict upon the spot the right honourable gentleman , of the most ...
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... stand him in good stead . He has been made to believe that his private creditors have power and interest to overrule the court of directors . " The nabob was not misinformed . The private cre- ditors instantly qualified a vast number of ...
... stand him in good stead . He has been made to believe that his private creditors have power and interest to overrule the court of directors . " The nabob was not misinformed . The private cre- ditors instantly qualified a vast number of ...
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... stand re- corded , they are in substance these . - The nabob of Arcot , as soon as he had thrown off the superiority of this country by means of these creditors , kept up a great army which he never paid . Of course , his soldiers were ...
... stand re- corded , they are in substance these . - The nabob of Arcot , as soon as he had thrown off the superiority of this country by means of these creditors , kept up a great army which he never paid . Of course , his soldiers were ...
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الصفحة 173 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced. No matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him. No matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down. No matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery. The first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust...
الصفحة 51 - Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One dead, uniform silence reigned over the whole region.
الصفحة 241 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
الصفحة 49 - ... and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance ; and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together was no protection.
الصفحة 50 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc.
الصفحة 51 - I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of this plague of hunger. Of all the calamities which beset and waylay the life of man, this comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself to be nothing more than he is : but I find myself unable...
الصفحة 265 - I have no idea of a liberty unconnected with honesty and justice. Nor do I believe that any good constitutions of government, or of freedom, can find it necessary for their security to doom any part of the people to a permanent slavery. Such a constitution of freedom, if such can be, is in effect no more than another name for the tyranny of the strongest faction; and factions in republics have been, and are, full as capable as monarchs of the most cruel oppression and injustice.
الصفحة 14 - ... and other men. On these principles he chooses to suppose (for he does not pretend more than to suppose) a naked possibility, that he shall draw some resource out of crumbs dropped from the trenchers of penury ; that something shall be laid in store from the short allowance of revenue officers...