Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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... which , from the nature of the thing , the direct proof is very difficult ) debts have at several periods been acknow- ledged to those gentlemen , to an immense amount ; that is , to some millions of sterling money . There ADVERTISEMENT .
... which , from the nature of the thing , the direct proof is very difficult ) debts have at several periods been acknow- ledged to those gentlemen , to an immense amount ; that is , to some millions of sterling money . There ADVERTISEMENT .
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... millions of other demands on their masters , to be entitled to claim a debt of three or four millions more from the territorial revenue of one of their depen- dent princes . The ostensible pecuniary transactions of the nabob of Arcot ...
... millions of other demands on their masters , to be entitled to claim a debt of three or four millions more from the territorial revenue of one of their depen- dent princes . The ostensible pecuniary transactions of the nabob of Arcot ...
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... millions sterling ought , or ought not , to be passed from the publick treasury into a private pocket , without any title except the claim of the parties , when the issue of fact is laid in Madras , as when it is laid in West- minster ...
... millions sterling ought , or ought not , to be passed from the publick treasury into a private pocket , without any title except the claim of the parties , when the issue of fact is laid in Madras , as when it is laid in West- minster ...
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... millions annually ; a collection on which the publick greatness , safety , and credit have their reliance ; the whole order of criminal ju- risprudence , which holds together society itself , have at no time obliged us to call forth ...
... millions annually ; a collection on which the publick greatness , safety , and credit have their reliance ; the whole order of criminal ju- risprudence , which holds together society itself , have at no time obliged us to call forth ...
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... millions from the treasures of this country , which are exhausting the vital juices from members of the state , where the publick inanition is far more sorely felt than in the local exchequer of England . Not content with winking at ...
... millions from the treasures of this country , which are exhausting the vital juices from members of the state , where the publick inanition is far more sorely felt than in the local exchequer of England . Not content with winking at ...
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Page ii - In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, « An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
Page ii - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
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 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.
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 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.
Page 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.
Page 318 - ... possession, peace ; if I have joined in reconciling kings to their subjects, and subjects to their prince; if I have assisted to loosen the foreign holdings of the citizen, and taught him to look for his protection to the laws of his country, and for his comfort to the good-will of...