Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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... conduct is now in question , formerly stood forth in this house , the prosecutor of the worthy baronet † who spoke after him . He charged him with several grievous acts of malversation in office ; with abuses of a publick trust of a ...
... conduct is now in question , formerly stood forth in this house , the prosecutor of the worthy baronet † who spoke after him . He charged him with several grievous acts of malversation in office ; with abuses of a publick trust of a ...
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... conduct of that inquisition ; that should commit this trust to a particular description of men , and in the very same breath should enable another body , at their own pleasure , to supersede all the provisions the legislature had made ...
... conduct of that inquisition ; that should commit this trust to a particular description of men , and in the very same breath should enable another body , at their own pleasure , to supersede all the provisions the legislature had made ...
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... conduct , we shall be worse than infants , if we do not put our senses under the tuition of our judgment , and effectually cure ourselves of that optical illusion which makes a briar at our nose of greater magnitude , than an oak at ...
... conduct , we shall be worse than infants , if we do not put our senses under the tuition of our judgment , and effectually cure ourselves of that optical illusion which makes a briar at our nose of greater magnitude , than an oak at ...
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... conduct in ministry is , and inconsistent with all just policy , it is still true to itself , and faithful to its own perverted order . Those who are bountiful to crimes , will be rigid to merit , and penurious to service . Their penury ...
... conduct in ministry is , and inconsistent with all just policy , it is still true to itself , and faithful to its own perverted order . Those who are bountiful to crimes , will be rigid to merit , and penurious to service . Their penury ...
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... , and of his own conduct with regard to it . I will show you that this debt was never contracted with the knowledge of the company ; that it had. * Mr. Dundas . * Right honourable Henry Dundas . 24 MR . BURKE'S SPEECH ON THE.
... , and of his own conduct with regard to it . I will show you that this debt was never contracted with the knowledge of the company ; that it had. * Mr. Dundas . * Right honourable Henry Dundas . 24 MR . BURKE'S SPEECH ON THE.
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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.
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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 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...