Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Band 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... never created by money bona fide lent . But even on a supposition that this vast sum was really advanced , it was impossible that the very reality of such an astonishing transaction should not cause some degree of alarm , and incite to ...
... never created by money bona fide lent . But even on a supposition that this vast sum was really advanced , it was impossible that the very reality of such an astonishing transaction should not cause some degree of alarm , and incite to ...
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With Prefatory Remarks Nathaniel Chapman. debt , yet they had never been able to trace the origin thereof , or to obtain any satisfactory information on the subject . " The court of directors , after stating the circum- stances under ...
With Prefatory Remarks Nathaniel Chapman. debt , yet they had never been able to trace the origin thereof , or to obtain any satisfactory information on the subject . " The court of directors , after stating the circum- stances under ...
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... never ceased to 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 ...
... never ceased to 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 ...
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... never served the publick in any honest occupation at all , an annual income equal to two thirds of the whole collection of the revenues of this kingdom . Actuated by the same principle of choice , he has now on the anvil another scheme ...
... never served the publick in any honest occupation at all , an annual income equal to two thirds of the whole collection of the revenues of this kingdom . Actuated by the same principle of choice , he has now on the anvil another scheme ...
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... never appeared in any other than a most questionable shape . When this gigantick phantom of debt first appeared before a young minister , it naturally would have justified some degree of doubt and apprehension . Such a prodigy would ...
... never appeared in any other than a most questionable shape . When this gigantick phantom of debt first appeared before a young minister , it naturally would have justified some degree of doubt and apprehension . Such a prodigy would ...
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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...