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... asked this question , which involves its answer , it is extraordinary that curiosity did not prompt the chancellor of the exchequer to that inquiry , which might come in vain recommended to him by his own act of parliament . Does not ...
... asked this question , which involves its answer , it is extraordinary that curiosity did not prompt the chancellor of the exchequer to that inquiry , which might come in vain recommended to him by his own act of parliament . Does not ...
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... asked , What he thinks is the original amount of the old debts ? he said , Between twenty - three and twenty - four lacs of pagodas , as well as he can recollect . - Being asked , What was the amount of that debt when he left Madras ...
... asked , What he thinks is the original amount of the old debts ? he said , Between twenty - three and twenty - four lacs of pagodas , as well as he can recollect . - Being asked , What was the amount of that debt when he left Madras ...
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... asked , Whether he has reason to believe the sixty lacs of pagodas was all principal money really and truly advanced to the nabob of Arcot , or a fictitious capital , made up of obligations given by him , where no money or goods were ...
... asked , Whether he has reason to believe the sixty lacs of pagodas was all principal money really and truly advanced to the nabob of Arcot , or a fictitious capital , made up of obligations given by him , where no money or goods were ...
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... asked , Whether , at the time he asked the nabob his price for the pearls , the nabob beat down that price , as dealers commonly do ? he said , No ; so far from it , he offered him more than he asked by 1000 pagodas , and which he ...
... asked , Whether , at the time he asked the nabob his price for the pearls , the nabob beat down that price , as dealers commonly do ? he said , No ; so far from it , he offered him more than he asked by 1000 pagodas , and which he ...
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... asked , In what station he was in the company's service ? he said , He went to India in the year 1765 , a writer upon the Madras establish- ment : he was employed , during the former war with Hyder Ali , in the capacity of paymaster and ...
... asked , In what station he was in the company's service ? he said , He went to India in the year 1765 , a writer upon the Madras establish- ment : he was employed , during the former war with Hyder Ali , in the capacity of paymaster and ...
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Page 172 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Page 220 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour.
Page 445 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Page 41 - ... compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Page 178 - Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete.
Page 229 - ... should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe, and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country, who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisonous weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life.
Page 230 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 173 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 198 - Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.