Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Том 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... question being put , it passed in the negative by a very great majority . SPEECH , & c . THE times we live in , Mr. Speaker , have been distinguished by extraordinary events . Habituated , however , as we are , to uncommon combinations ...
... question being put , it passed in the negative by a very great majority . SPEECH , & c . THE times we live in , Mr. Speaker , have been distinguished by extraordinary events . Habituated , however , as we are , to uncommon combinations ...
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... question is not a great deal involved in the labyrinths of Indian detail . Certainly not . But if it were , I beg leave to assure you , that there is nothing in the Indian detail which is more difficult than in the detail of any other ...
... question is not a great deal involved in the labyrinths of Indian detail . Certainly not . But if it were , I beg leave to assure you , that there is nothing in the Indian detail which is more difficult than in the detail of any other ...
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... question , which involves its answer , it is extraordinary that curiosity did not prompt the chancellor of the exchequer to that in- quiry which might come in vain recommended to him by his own act of parliament . Does not the nabob of ...
... question , which involves its answer , it is extraordinary that curiosity did not prompt the chancellor of the exchequer to that in- quiry which might come in vain recommended to him by his own act of parliament . Does not the nabob of ...
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... question , as it is falsely pretended , between the nabob of Arcot , as debtor , and Paul Benfield and his associates , as creditors , I am sure I should give myself but little trouble about it . If the hoards of op- pression were the ...
... question , as it is falsely pretended , between the nabob of Arcot , as debtor , and Paul Benfield and his associates , as creditors , I am sure I should give myself but little trouble about it . If the hoards of op- pression were the ...
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... question , as a preference given to the debt of individuals over the company's debt . In my eye it is no more than the preference of a fiction over a a chimera ; but I blame the preference given to those fictitious private debts over ...
... question , as a preference given to the debt of individuals over the company's debt . In my eye it is no more than the preference of a fiction over a a chimera ; but I blame the preference given to those fictitious private debts over ...
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Страница 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.
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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
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