Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Том 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... England , December 9 , 1789 . Speech of Mr. Curran , on the trial of Archibald Ha- milton Rowan , Esquire , for the publication of a libel . Mr. Pitt's Speech on revenue and expenditure , deli- vered in the House of Commons , February ...
... England , December 9 , 1789 . Speech of Mr. Curran , on the trial of Archibald Ha- milton Rowan , Esquire , for the publication of a libel . Mr. Pitt's Speech on revenue and expenditure , deli- vered in the House of Commons , February ...
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... England exactly in this manner , and many other instances of equal weight might be cited , if necessary , to the editor's justification . The subsequent volumes of the work shall appear with " all convenient despatch . " The first and ...
... England exactly in this manner , and many other instances of equal weight might be cited , if necessary , to the editor's justification . The subsequent volumes of the work shall appear with " all convenient despatch . " The first and ...
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... England , in order to facili- tate the vent of their goods , and to avoid instant insolvency - at that very moment that their servants should appear in so flourishing a condition , as , be- sides ten millions of other demands on their ...
... England , in order to facili- tate the vent of their goods , and to avoid instant insolvency - at that very moment that their servants should appear in so flourishing a condition , as , be- sides ten millions of other demands on their ...
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... England . To go no further than the case before us : you are just as com- petent to judge whether the sum of four millions sterling ought , or ought not , to be passed from the publick treasury into a private pocket , without any title ...
... England . To go no further than the case before us : you are just as com- petent to judge whether the sum of four millions sterling ought , or ought not , to be passed from the publick treasury into a private pocket , without any title ...
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... England . Not content with winking at these abuses , whilst he at- tempts to squeeze the laborious ill - paid drudges of English revenue , he lavishes in one act of corrupt prodigality , upon those who never served the publick in any ...
... England . Not content with winking at these abuses , whilst he at- tempts to squeeze the laborious ill - paid drudges of English revenue , he lavishes in one act of corrupt prodigality , upon those who never served the publick in any ...
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Страница 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.
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