Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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... duty to inquire very minutely into those debts , even if the act of par- liament had been ' silent on the subject , before we concurred in any measure for their payment . But with the positive injunctions of the act before us , to ...
... duty to inquire very minutely into those debts , even if the act of par- liament had been ' silent on the subject , before we concurred in any measure for their payment . But with the positive injunctions of the act before us , to ...
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With Prefatory Remarks Nathaniel Chapman. duty , as well under their general trust and their oath as directors , as under the express injunctions of an act of parliament . By another section of the same act , the same court ' of ...
With Prefatory Remarks Nathaniel Chapman. duty , as well under their general trust and their oath as directors , as under the express injunctions of an act of parliament . By another section of the same act , the same court ' of ...
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... duty ; if on the contrary , we do not stretch and ex- pand our minds to the compass of their object , be well assured , that every thing about us will dwindle by degrees , until at length our concerns are shrunk to the dimensions of our ...
... duty ; if on the contrary , we do not stretch and ex- pand our minds to the compass of their object , be well assured , that every thing about us will dwindle by degrees , until at length our concerns are shrunk to the dimensions of our ...
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... duty , and famished for want of bread ; by a reduction from officers who are at this very hour ready to batter the treasury with what breaks through stone walls , for an increase of their appointments . From the marrow- less bones 14 MR ...
... duty , and famished for want of bread ; by a reduction from officers who are at this very hour ready to batter the treasury with what breaks through stone walls , for an increase of their appointments . From the marrow- less bones 14 MR ...
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... duty in con- cealing it from us . These expressions , concerning the ground of the transaction , its effect , and its clandestine nature , are in the letters , bearing date March 17 , 1769. Af- ter receiving a more full account on the ...
... duty in con- cealing it from us . These expressions , concerning the ground of the transaction , its effect , and its clandestine nature , are in the letters , bearing date March 17 , 1769. Af- ter receiving a more full account on the ...
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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...