Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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... justice of England , December 9 , 1789 . Speech of Mr. Curran , on the trial of Archibald Ha- milton Rowan , Esquire , for the publication of a libel . Mr. Pitt's Speech on revenue and expenditure , deli- vered in the House of Commons ...
... justice of England , December 9 , 1789 . Speech of Mr. Curran , on the trial of Archibald Ha- milton Rowan , Esquire , for the publication of a libel . Mr. Pitt's Speech on revenue and expenditure , deli- vered in the House of Commons ...
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... justice and origin of the pretended debts , particularly of the last , the greatest , and the most obnoxious to suspicion , is abandoned . They are all admitted and established without any investi- gation whatsoever ; except some ...
... justice and origin of the pretended debts , particularly of the last , the greatest , and the most obnoxious to suspicion , is abandoned . They are all admitted and established without any investi- gation whatsoever ; except some ...
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... justice of their claims , prescribed by an act of parliament ? It is not contended , that the act of parliament did not expressly ordain an inquiry . It is not asserted that this inquiry was not , with equal precision of terms ...
... justice of their claims , prescribed by an act of parliament ? It is not contended , that the act of parliament did not expressly ordain an inquiry . It is not asserted that this inquiry was not , with equal precision of terms ...
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... justice , oppression , peculation , engendered in India , are crimes of the same blood , family , and cast with those that are born and bred in England . To go no further than the case before us : you are just as com- petent to judge ...
... justice , oppression , peculation , engendered in India , are crimes of the same blood , family , and cast with those that are born and bred in England . To go no further than the case before us : you are just as com- petent to judge ...
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... justice . The creditors , he affirms , lent their money publickly ; they advanced it with the express knowledge and ap- probation of the company ; and it was contracted at the moderate interest of ten per cent . In this loan the demand ...
... justice . The creditors , he affirms , lent their money publickly ; they advanced it with the express knowledge and ap- probation of the company ; and it was contracted at the moderate interest of ten per cent . In this loan the demand ...
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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...