Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, المجلد 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... given to the court of directors specifically . It was known , that the territories of the former of these princes had been twice invaded and pillaged , and the prince deposed and imprisoned , by the company's servants , in- fluenced by ...
... given to the court of directors specifically . It was known , that the territories of the former of these princes had been twice invaded and pillaged , and the prince deposed and imprisoned , by the company's servants , in- fluenced by ...
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... given by them , and entered on their records . These proceedings naturally called for some in- quiry . On the 28th of February , 1785 , Mr. Fox made the following motion in the house of commons , after moving that the clauses of the act ...
... given by them , and entered on their records . These proceedings naturally called for some in- quiry . On the 28th of February , 1785 , Mr. Fox made the following motion in the house of commons , after moving that the clauses of the act ...
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... given to any persons by name , to do some particular act , no others , by virtue of general powers , can obtain a legal title to intrude themselves into that trust , and to exercise those special functions in their place . I therefore ...
... given to any persons by name , to do some particular act , no others , by virtue of general powers , can obtain a legal title to intrude themselves into that trust , and to exercise those special functions in their place . I therefore ...
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... given a just value to economy ; and our minister of the day must be an economist , whatever it may cost us . But where is he to exert his talents ? At home to be sure ; for where else can he obtain a profitable credit for their exertion ...
... given a just value to economy ; and our minister of the day must be an economist , whatever it may cost us . But where is he to exert his talents ? At home to be sure ; for where else can he obtain a profitable credit for their exertion ...
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... says , that eighteen per cent . was the usual interest ; but he had heard that more had been given . The above is the account which Mr. B. received . VOL . III . of England , at four shillings in the pound ; NABOB OF ARCOT'S DEBTS 19.
... says , that eighteen per cent . was the usual interest ; but he had heard that more had been given . The above is the account which Mr. B. received . VOL . III . of England , at four shillings in the pound ; NABOB OF ARCOT'S DEBTS 19.
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الصفحة ii - In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, « An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
الصفحة ii - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
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 239 - ... 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 234 - I did not obey your instructions: No. I conformed to the instructions of truth and nature, and maintained your interest, against your opinions, with a constancy that became me. A representative worthy of you ought to be a person of stability. I am to look, indeed, to your opinions; but to such opinions as you and I must have five years hence.
الصفحة 50 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
الصفحة 318 - ... possession, peace ; if I have joined in reconciling kings to their subjects, and subjects to their prince; if I have assisted to loosen the foreign holdings of the citizen, and taught him to look for his protection to the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the good-will of...