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... present description . But it is not difficult to discover what end that ambiguous mode of ex- preffion , fo often reiterated , is meant to answer . The rights of men , that is to fay , the natural . rights of mankind , are indeed facred ...
... present description . But it is not difficult to discover what end that ambiguous mode of ex- preffion , fo often reiterated , is meant to answer . The rights of men , that is to fay , the natural . rights of mankind , are indeed facred ...
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... present to my me- mory , and which I think I can lay before you at half an hour's warning . The first potentate fold by the company for money , was the Great Mogul - the defcendant of Tamerlane . This high perfonage , as high as hu- man ...
... present to my me- mory , and which I think I can lay before you at half an hour's warning . The first potentate fold by the company for money , was the Great Mogul - the defcendant of Tamerlane . This high perfonage , as high as hu- man ...
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... present the ftate of your char- ter - government over great kingdoms . As the company has made this use of their truft , I should ill discharge mine , if I refufed to give my moft chearful vote for the redress of these abuses , by by ...
... present the ftate of your char- ter - government over great kingdoms . As the company has made this use of their truft , I should ill discharge mine , if I refufed to give my moft chearful vote for the redress of these abuses , by by ...
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... present the grant of a single office under the company , civil or military , at home or abroad ? So far as the crown is concerned , it is certainly rather a gainer ; for the vacant offices in the new commiffion are to be filled up by ...
... present the grant of a single office under the company , civil or military , at home or abroad ? So far as the crown is concerned , it is certainly rather a gainer ; for the vacant offices in the new commiffion are to be filled up by ...
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... present directors ; none of whom are named by the crown , and a proportion of whom hold for this very term of four years ? Did it not lie against the governour general and council named in the act of 1773- who were invefted by name , as ...
... present directors ; none of whom are named by the crown , and a proportion of whom hold for this very term of four years ? Did it not lie against the governour general and council named in the act of 1773- who were invefted by name , as ...
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Страница 30 - ... house in the kingdom that does not feel some concern and interest that makes all reform of our eastern government appear officious and disgusting; and, on the whole, a most discouraging attempt.
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Страница 117 - These thoughts will support a mind, which only exists for honour, under the burthen of temporary reproach. He is doing indeed a great good ; such as rarely falls to the lot, and almost as rarely coincides with the desires, of any man. Let him use his time. Let him give the whole length of the reins to his benevolence. He is now on a great eminence, where the eyes of mankind are turned to him. He may live long, he may do much. But here is the summit. He never can exceed what he does this day.
Страница 250 - 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.
Страница 255 - While they were performing this fundamental duty, whilst they were celebrating these mysteries of justice and humanity, they would have told the corps of fictitious creditors whose crimes were their claims, that they must keep an awful distance; that they must silence their inauspicious tongues; that they must hold...
Страница 252 - ... and countries cultivated, will regard all this raving as it ought to be regarded. In order that the people, after a long period of vexation and plunder, may be in a condition to maintain government, government must begin by maintaining them.
Страница 29 - Poverty, sterility, and desolation, are not a recreating prospect to the eye of man; and there are very few who can bear to grow old among the curses of a whole people. If their passion or their avarice...
Страница 29 - ... profusion, or the rapine of a more powerful and prodigal hand, restored them to the people. With many disorders, and with few political checks upon power, nature had still fair play; the sources of acquisition were not dried up; and therefore the trade, the manufactures, and the commerce of the country flourished.
Страница 247 - 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.