Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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... tion on occasion of which it was delivered , it may be proper to acquaint him , that among the princes de- pendent on this nation in the southern part of India , the most considerable at present is commonly known by the title of the ...
... tion on occasion of which it was delivered , it may be proper to acquaint him , that among the princes de- pendent on this nation in the southern part of India , the most considerable at present is commonly known by the title of the ...
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... tion of India , a minute knowledge of India is requi- site . But , on any specifick matter of delinquency in its government , you are as capable of judging , as if the same thing were done at your door . Fraud , in- justice , oppression ...
... tion of India , a minute knowledge of India is requi- site . But , on any specifick matter of delinquency in its government , you are as capable of judging , as if the same thing were done at your door . Fraud , in- justice , oppression ...
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... tion of that knowledge is utterly unfounded . But did the directors approve of it , and ratify the transac- tion when it was known ? The very reverse . the same third of March , the directors declare , upon an impartial examination of ...
... tion of that knowledge is utterly unfounded . But did the directors approve of it , and ratify the transac- tion when it was known ? The very reverse . the same third of March , the directors declare , upon an impartial examination of ...
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... tion , though it by no means pointed particularly to this class of debts , came like a thunderclap on the nabob . He considered his political credit as ruined ; but to find a remedy to this unexpected evil , he again added to the old ...
... tion , though it by no means pointed particularly to this class of debts , came like a thunderclap on the nabob . He considered his political credit as ruined ; but to find a remedy to this unexpected evil , he again added to the old ...
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... tion in the country . These two motives ( for the plainest reasons in the world ) the right honourable gentleman has this day thought fit totally to abandon . In the first place , he rejects the authority of the na- bob of Arcot . It ...
... tion in the country . These two motives ( for the plainest reasons in the world ) the right honourable gentleman has this day thought fit totally to abandon . In the first place , he rejects the authority of the na- bob of Arcot . It ...
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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.
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