Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Band 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... claims as proprietor in the words following , to wit : " SELECT SPEECHES , Forensick and Parliamentary , with prefatory remarks . By N. Chapman , M. D. honorary member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh , and member of the ...
... claims as proprietor in the words following , to wit : " SELECT SPEECHES , Forensick and Parliamentary , with prefatory remarks . By N. Chapman , M. D. honorary member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh , and member of the ...
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... claims of his elder brother , as well as those of other competitors , to the arms and in- fluence of the British East India company . Being thus established in a considerable part of the domi- nions he now possesses , he began , about ...
... claims of his elder brother , as well as those of other competitors , to the arms and in- fluence of the British East India company . Being thus established in a considerable part of the domi- nions he now possesses , he began , about ...
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... 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 , with very private persons , are so enormous , that they ...
... 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 , with very private persons , are so enormous , that they ...
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... claimed were " very large . " The last head of these debts the directors compute at 2,465,6807 . sterling . Of the existence of this debt the directors heard nothing until 1776 , and they say , that , " although they had repeatedly ...
... claimed were " very large . " The last head of these debts the directors compute at 2,465,6807 . sterling . Of the existence of this debt the directors heard nothing until 1776 , and they say , that , " although they had repeatedly ...
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... claim the country itself , and carried on a continued train of negotiation , that it should again be given up to him , in violation of the company's publick faith . The directors , in obedience to this part of the act , ordered an ...
... claim the country itself , and carried on a continued train of negotiation , that it should again be given up to him , in violation of the company's publick faith . The directors , in obedience to this part of the act , ordered an ...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks, Band 3 Nathaniel 1780-1853 Ed Chapman Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...