Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, المجلد 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... his abusing his power on this sole principle , that he had power to abuse , he would have left but one impression on the mind of every man who heard him , and who believed him in his senses - that in the utmost 10 MR . BURKE'S SPEECH ON ...
... his abusing his power on this sole principle , that he had power to abuse , he would have left but one impression on the mind of every man who heard him , and who believed him in his senses - that in the utmost 10 MR . BURKE'S SPEECH ON ...
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... minds to the compass of their object , be well assured , that every thing about us will dwindle by degrees , until at length our concerns are shrunk to the dimensions of our minds . It is not a predi lection to mean , sordid , home ...
... minds to the compass of their object , be well assured , that every thing about us will dwindle by degrees , until at length our concerns are shrunk to the dimensions of our minds . It is not a predi lection to mean , sordid , home ...
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... mind to claim their first charities ; you will find the same rule religiously ob- served with Europeans too . Attend , sir , to this de- cisive case . Since the beginning of the war , besides arrears of every kind , a bond debt has been ...
... mind to claim their first charities ; you will find the same rule religiously ob- served with Europeans too . Attend , sir , to this de- cisive case . Since the beginning of the war , besides arrears of every kind , a bond debt has been ...
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... mind revolts from it ; though you will hear it with horrour ; and I con- fess I tremble when I think on these awful and con- founding dispensations of Providence . I shall first trouble you with a few words as to the cause . But The The ...
... mind revolts from it ; though you will hear it with horrour ; and I con- fess I tremble when I think on these awful and con- founding dispensations of Providence . I shall first trouble you with a few words as to the cause . But The The ...
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... mind capacious of such things , to leave the whole Carnatick an everlasting monument of vengeance ; and to put perpetual desolation as a barri- er between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world ...
... mind capacious of such things , to leave the whole Carnatick an everlasting monument of vengeance ; and to put perpetual desolation as a barri- er between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world ...
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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...