Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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... gentlemen to alternate , as criminal and accuser , upon what principles they think expedient ; it is for us to consider , Whether the chancellor of the exchequer , and the treasurer of the navy , acting as a board of control , are justi ...
... gentlemen to alternate , as criminal and accuser , upon what principles they think expedient ; it is for us to consider , Whether the chancellor of the exchequer , and the treasurer of the navy , acting as a board of control , are justi ...
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... gentlemen , residing at Madras . This grand capital , settled at length by order at ten per cent , afforded an annuity of eighty- eight thousand pounds . * Whilst the directors were digesting their astonish- ment at this information , a ...
... gentlemen , residing at Madras . This grand capital , settled at length by order at ten per cent , afforded an annuity of eighty- eight thousand pounds . * Whilst the directors were digesting their astonish- ment at this information , a ...
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... gentleman on each of the heads , as he has thought proper to divide them . But this was the exact view in which these ... gentlemen , in the noviciate of their administration , on their guard , and to call upon them for a strict inquiry ...
... gentleman on each of the heads , as he has thought proper to divide them . But this was the exact view in which these ... gentlemen , in the noviciate of their administration , on their guard , and to call upon them for a strict inquiry ...
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... gentlemen have carried hence to enrich India ? What are the sciences they beamed out to enlighten it ? What are the ... gentleman says , he has read for him , whole volumes upon the subject . The volumes , by the way , are not by one ...
... gentlemen have carried hence to enrich India ? What are the sciences they beamed out to enlighten it ? What are the ... gentleman says , he has read for him , whole volumes upon the subject . The volumes , by the way , are not by one ...
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... gentlemen on the other side of the house know as well as I do , and they dare not contradict me , that the na- bob of Arcot and his creditors are not adversaries , but collusive parties , and that the whole transaction is un- der a ...
... gentlemen on the other side of the house know as well as I do , and they dare not contradict me , that the na- bob of Arcot and his creditors are not adversaries , but collusive parties , and that the whole transaction is un- der a ...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3 Nathaniel 1780-1853 Ed Chapman No preview available - 2016 |
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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...