Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Том 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... gentlemen to alternate , as criminal and accuser , upon what principles they think expedient ; it is for us to consider , Whether the chancellor of the exchequer , and the treasurer of the navy , acting as a board of control , are justi ...
... gentlemen to alternate , as criminal and accuser , upon what principles they think expedient ; it is for us to consider , Whether the chancellor of the exchequer , and the treasurer of the navy , acting as a board of control , are justi ...
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... gentlemen , residing at Madras . This grand capital , settled at length by order at ten per cent . afforded an annuity of eighty- eight thousand pounds . * Whilst the directors were digesting their astonish- ment at this information , a ...
... gentlemen , residing at Madras . This grand capital , settled at length by order at ten per cent . afforded an annuity of eighty- eight thousand pounds . * Whilst the directors were digesting their astonish- ment at this information , a ...
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... gentleman on each of the heads , as he has thought proper to divide them . But this was the exact view in which these ... gentlemen , in the noviciate of their administration , on their guard , and to call upon them for a strict inquiry ...
... gentleman on each of the heads , as he has thought proper to divide them . But this was the exact view in which these ... gentlemen , in the noviciate of their administration , on their guard , and to call upon them for a strict inquiry ...
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... gentlemen have carried hence to enrich India ? What are the sciences they beamed out to enlighten it ? What are the ... gentleman says , he has read for him , whole volumes upon the subject . The volumes , by the way , are not by one ...
... gentlemen have carried hence to enrich India ? What are the sciences they beamed out to enlighten it ? What are the ... gentleman says , he has read for him , whole volumes upon the subject . The volumes , by the way , are not by one ...
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... gentlemen on the other side of the house know as well as I do , and they dare not contradict me , that the na- bob of Arcot and his creditors are not adversaries , but collusive parties , and that the whole transaction is un- der a ...
... gentlemen on the other side of the house know as well as I do , and they dare not contradict me , that the na- bob of Arcot and his creditors are not adversaries , but collusive parties , and that the whole transaction is un- der a ...
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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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