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... reason to suspect , that the body of these debts is wholly fictitious , and was 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 ...
... reason to suspect , that the body of these debts is wholly fictitious , and was 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 ...
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... reason ) that our concerns in India were matters of delicacy ; that to divulge 1 Right Honourable Henry Dundas . 2 Sir Thomas Rumbold , late governor of Madras . 4 any thing relative to them would be mischievous to the.
... reason ) that our concerns in India were matters of delicacy ; that to divulge 1 Right Honourable Henry Dundas . 2 Sir Thomas Rumbold , late governor of Madras . 4 any thing relative to them would be mischievous to the.
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... reason ( and if he has power to carry himself through , I commend his prudence ) that the right honourable gentleman makes his stand at the very outset ; and boldly refuses all parliamentary information . Let him admit but one step ...
... reason ( and if he has power to carry himself through , I commend his prudence ) that the right honourable gentleman makes his stand at the very outset ; and boldly refuses all parliamentary information . Let him admit but one step ...
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... reason for his change of disposition . However , he went no further . • Nabob's proposals , November 25th , 1778 ; and memorial of the creditors , March 1st , 1799 . the principal and interest of this debt . In one NABOB OF ARCOT'S ...
... reason for his change of disposition . However , he went no further . • Nabob's proposals , November 25th , 1778 ; and memorial of the creditors , March 1st , 1799 . the principal and interest of this debt . In one NABOB OF ARCOT'S ...
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... reason , in the happier times of India , a number , almost incredible , of reservoirs have been made in chosen places throughout the whole country ; they are formed for the greater part of mounds of earth and stones , with sluices of ...
... reason , in the happier times of India , a number , almost incredible , of reservoirs have been made in chosen places throughout the whole country ; they are formed for the greater part of mounds of earth and stones , with sluices of ...
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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.