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Страница 454 - Sir, the Nabob having determined to inflict corporal punishment upon the prisoners under your guard, this is to desire that his officers, when they shall come, may have free access to the prisoners, and be permitted to do with them as they shall see proper.
Страница 90 - There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity : — the law of nature and of nations.
Страница 256 - The administration of the province is misconducted, and the people oppressed ; trade discouraged, and the revenue, though said to be exceeded in the actual...
Страница 90 - Heath, but hundreds robbed there before me:' to which I answer, ' The law has forbidden you to rob there, and I will hang you for having violated the law, notwithstanding the long list of similar violations which you have produced as precedents.
Страница x - This, too, depends in part upon ourselves. It is necessary to preserve the respect due to the House of Lords ; it is full as necessary to preserve the respect due to the House of Commons, upon which (whatever may be thought of us by some persons) the weight and force of all other authorities within this kingdom essentially depend.
Страница ix - very heavily censured. That pamphlet, I hear, " (for I have not read it) purports to be a Report " made by one of your Committees to this " House. It has been censured (as I am told) " by the person and in the place I have men" tioned, in very harsh and very unqualified