Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added, the Argument of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier |
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... Hastings , Esq . , February 15 and 16 , 1788 , 237 ERSKINE . MR . ERSKINE'S Speech , in Defence of the Liberty of the Press , delivered on the Trial of Thomas Paine for a Libel , Speech of the Hon . T. ERSKINE , on the Prosecution of ...
... Hastings , Esq . , February 15 and 16 , 1788 , 237 ERSKINE . MR . ERSKINE'S Speech , in Defence of the Liberty of the Press , delivered on the Trial of Thomas Paine for a Libel , Speech of the Hon . T. ERSKINE , on the Prosecution of ...
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... Hastings does not deny , or show the least doubt of the fact . The repre- sentation is humble , and almost abject . On this representation from a great prince of the distress of his subjects , Mr. Hastings falls into a violent passion ...
... Hastings does not deny , or show the least doubt of the fact . The repre- sentation is humble , and almost abject . On this representation from a great prince of the distress of his subjects , Mr. Hastings falls into a violent passion ...
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... Hastings to despoil the relict of Sujah Dowlah was her own son , the reigning nabob of Oude . It was the pious hand of a son that was selected to tear from his mother and grand- mother the provision of their age , the maintenance of his ...
... Hastings to despoil the relict of Sujah Dowlah was her own son , the reigning nabob of Oude . It was the pious hand of a son that was selected to tear from his mother and grand- mother the provision of their age , the maintenance of his ...
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... Hastings set up ) the whole nobility , gentry , and freeholders , to the highest bidder . No preference was given to the ancient proprietors . They must bid against every usurer , every temporary adventurer , every jobber and schemer ...
... Hastings set up ) the whole nobility , gentry , and freeholders , to the highest bidder . No preference was given to the ancient proprietors . They must bid against every usurer , every temporary adventurer , every jobber and schemer ...
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... Hastings's banian was , after this auction , found possessed of territories yielding a rent of one hundred and forty thousand pounds a year . Such an universal proscription , upon any pretence , has few examples . Such a proscription ...
... Hastings's banian was , after this auction , found possessed of territories yielding a rent of one hundred and forty thousand pounds a year . Such an universal proscription , upon any pretence , has few examples . Such a proscription ...
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Page 479 - ... is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 351 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 479 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 430 - The power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as Prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength, and far less odium, under the name of Influence.
Page 36 - You may swell every expense and every effort still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles...
Page 348 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 370 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 57 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.
Page 92 - ... their ability, let the best of them get up and tell me, what one character of liberty the Americans have, and what one brand of slavery they are free from, if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce, and at the same time are made pack-horses of every tax you choose to impose, without the least share in granting them. When they bear the...
Page 11 - Great Britain, give and grant to your Majesty" — what ? Our own property ! No ! ' ' We give and grant to your Majesty" the property of your Majesty's commons of America!