Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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... feel a degree of disgust , almost leading to despair , at the manner in which we are acting in the great exigencies of our country . There is now a bill in this house , appointing a rigid inquisition in- to the minutest detail of our ...
... feel a degree of disgust , almost leading to despair , at the manner in which we are acting in the great exigencies of our country . There is now a bill in this house , appointing a rigid inquisition in- to the minutest detail of our ...
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... feeling , are you to deny them their just relief ? But will the right honourable gentleman be pleased to tell us , how they came not to give this satisfaction to the court of directors , their lawful masters , during all the eight years ...
... feeling , are you to deny them their just relief ? But will the right honourable gentleman be pleased to tell us , how they came not to give this satisfaction to the court of directors , their lawful masters , during all the eight years ...
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... feeling , when , after such a thundering preamble of condemnation , this debt is ordered to be paid without any sort of inquiry into its authenticity ? without a single step taken to settle even the amount of the demand ? without an ...
... feeling , when , after such a thundering preamble of condemnation , this debt is ordered to be paid without any sort of inquiry into its authenticity ? without a single step taken to settle even the amount of the demand ? without an ...
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... feels himself to be nothing more than he is : but I find myself unable to manage it with decorum ; these details are of a species of horrour so nauseous and disgusting ; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers ; they ...
... feels himself to be nothing more than he is : but I find myself unable to manage it with decorum ; these details are of a species of horrour so nauseous and disgusting ; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers ; they ...
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... feel no common interest in his reputation . Yet I do not hesitate wholly to disallow the calculation of 1781 , without any apprehension that I shall appear to distrust his veracity or his judgment . This peace estimate of revenue was ...
... feel no common interest in his reputation . Yet I do not hesitate wholly to disallow the calculation of 1781 , without any apprehension that I shall appear to distrust his veracity or his judgment . This peace estimate of revenue was ...
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Page 173 - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced. No matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him. No matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down. No matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery. The first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust...
Page 51 - 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.
Page 241 - ... 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 51 - I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of this plague of hunger. Of all the calamities which beset and waylay the life of man, this comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself to be nothing more than he is : but I find myself unable...
Page 265 - I have no idea of a liberty unconnected with honesty and justice. Nor do I believe that any good constitutions of government, or of freedom, can find it necessary for their security to doom any part of the people to a permanent slavery. Such a constitution of freedom, if such can be, is in effect no more than another name for the tyranny of the strongest faction; and factions in republics have been, and are, full as capable as monarchs of the most cruel oppression and injustice.
Page 14 - ... and other men. On these principles he chooses to suppose (for he does not pretend more than to suppose) a naked possibility, that he shall draw some resource out of crumbs dropped from the trenchers of penury ; that something shall be laid in store from the short allowance of revenue officers...