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... believe nobody recollects any thing more surprising than the spectacle of this day . The right honourable gentleman ' , whose conduct is now in ques- tion , formerly stood forth in this House , the prosecutor of the worthy baronet ' who ...
... believe nobody recollects any thing more surprising than the spectacle of this day . The right honourable gentleman ' , whose conduct is now in ques- tion , formerly stood forth in this House , the prosecutor of the worthy baronet ' who ...
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... believe he thought so , because he has put it last in the provision he has made for these claims . I readily admit this debt to stand the fairest of the whole ; for whatever may be my suspicions concerning a part of it , I can convict ...
... believe he thought so , because he has put it last in the provision he has made for these claims . I readily admit this debt to stand the fairest of the whole ; for whatever may be my suspicions concerning a part of it , I can convict ...
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... believe that his private creditors have power and interest to over - rule the court of directors 1 . " The nabob was not misinformed . The private creditors instantly qualified a vast number of votes ; and having made themselves masters ...
... believe that his private creditors have power and interest to over - rule the court of directors 1 . " The nabob was not misinformed . The private creditors instantly qualified a vast number of votes ; and having made themselves masters ...
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... believe , that ten per cent . was settled on the whole . When you consider the enormity of the interest at which these debts were contracted , and the several interests added to the prin- cipal , I believe you will not think me so ...
... believe , that ten per cent . was settled on the whole . When you consider the enormity of the interest at which these debts were contracted , and the several interests added to the prin- cipal , I believe you will not think me so ...
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... believe ever was admitted into the thoughts of a man so situated . First , they persuaded him to consider himself as a principal member in the political system of Europe . In the next place they held out to him , and he readily imbibed ...
... believe ever was admitted into the thoughts of a man so situated . First , they persuaded him to consider himself as a principal member in the political system of Europe . In the next place they held out to him , and he readily imbibed ...
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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.