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... taken and withheld from him , were ever returned . The nabob , on the other hand , never ceased to claim the country itself , and carried on a continued train of negoti- ation , that it should again be given up to him , in violation of ...
... taken and withheld from him , were ever returned . The nabob , on the other hand , never ceased to claim the country itself , and carried on a continued train of negoti- ation , that it should again be given up to him , in violation of ...
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... taken up loans by which I have suffered a loss of upwards of a score of pagodas [ four millions sterling ] by interest on a heavy interest . " - Letter 15th January , 1772 , " Notwithstanding I have taken much trouble , and have made ...
... taken up loans by which I have suffered a loss of upwards of a score of pagodas [ four millions sterling ] by interest on a heavy interest . " - Letter 15th January , 1772 , " Notwithstanding I have taken much trouble , and have made ...
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... taken to settle even the amount of the demand ? without an attempt so much as to ascertain the real persons claiming a sum , which rises in the accounts from one million three hundred thousand pound sterling to two million four hundred ...
... taken to settle even the amount of the demand ? without an attempt so much as to ascertain the real persons claiming a sum , which rises in the accounts from one million three hundred thousand pound sterling to two million four hundred ...
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... taken notice of in their controversy with the court of directors , than if it had no existence . It is the report made by a committee appointed at Madras , to manage the whole of the six countries assigned to the company by the nabob of ...
... taken notice of in their controversy with the court of directors , than if it had no existence . It is the report made by a committee appointed at Madras , to manage the whole of the six countries assigned to the company by the nabob of ...
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... taken . This again , by payments in advance , by extorting deposits of additional sums to a vast amount for the benefit of their soucars , and by an endless variety of other extortions , public and private , is loaded with a debt , the ...
... taken . This again , by payments in advance , by extorting deposits of additional sums to a vast amount for the benefit of their soucars , and by an endless variety of other extortions , public and private , is loaded with a debt , the ...
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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.