Public Characters, 7. köideR. Phillips, 1805 |
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... conduct as a leading direc tor of the East India Company , and the strenuous assertion of what he considers as the rights of the company , against what he deems the infringements of private traders . As this question is of such general ...
... conduct as a leading direc tor of the East India Company , and the strenuous assertion of what he considers as the rights of the company , against what he deems the infringements of private traders . As this question is of such general ...
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... conduct of the directors was guided by that prudence for which they got credit , the greater publicity that was given either to the state or management of their affairs the better . " On the debate about the eighteen millions , com ...
... conduct of the directors was guided by that prudence for which they got credit , the greater publicity that was given either to the state or management of their affairs the better . " On the debate about the eighteen millions , com ...
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... conduct which might endanger the peace and happiness of the king- dom , he could not at the same time but recollect that , as a member of parliament , he was bound to see that , under pretence of repressing violent measures , no ...
... conduct which might endanger the peace and happiness of the king- dom , he could not at the same time but recollect that , as a member of parliament , he was bound to see that , under pretence of repressing violent measures , no ...
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... conduct to be right ? " I cannot believe , however , that any of this 500,000l . is intended for the Emperor . He will not conform to the views of the right honourable gentleman , and would not , I dare say , accept a sub- sidy on the ...
... conduct to be right ? " I cannot believe , however , that any of this 500,000l . is intended for the Emperor . He will not conform to the views of the right honourable gentleman , and would not , I dare say , accept a sub- sidy on the ...
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quarrel , and far less in order to throw any doubt on the conduct of either party on the field , ( which is allowed on all hands to have been unimpeachable ) but merely to preserve a jeu d'esprit of the times : THE BATTLE OF PUTNEY ...
quarrel , and far less in order to throw any doubt on the conduct of either party on the field , ( which is allowed on all hands to have been unimpeachable ) but merely to preserve a jeu d'esprit of the times : THE BATTLE OF PUTNEY ...
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Page 106 - That an humble address be presented to his majesty, that he will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this house...
Page 119 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowne'd honour by the locks...
Page 603 - That it is now necessary to declare that to report any opinion or pretended opinion of his Majesty upon any bill or other proceeding depending in either house of Parliament, with a view to influence the votes of the members, is a high crime and misdemeanor, derogatory to the honour of the crown, a breach of the fundamental privileges of Parliament, and subversive of the Constitution of this country.
Page 151 - ... of blood. Were it permitted for a soldier to regret any one who has fallen in the service of his country, I might be excused for lamenting him, more than any other person; but it is some consolation to those who tenderly loved him, that as his life was honourable, so was his death glorious. His memory will be recorded in the annals of his country — will be sacred to every British soldier, and embalmed in the recollection of a grateful posterity.
Page 266 - Prepare for happiness ; bespeak him one Content indeed to sojourn while he must Below the skies, but having there his home. The world o'erlooks him in her busy search Of objects more illustrious in her view ; And occupied as earnestly as she, Though more sublimely, he o'erlooks the world. She scorns his pleasures, for she knows them not ; He seeks not hers, for he has proved them vain.
Page 258 - Piety displays Her mouldering roll, the piercing eye explores New manners, and the pomp of elder days, Whence culls the pensive bard his pictured stores. Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strown with flowers.
Page 555 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 371 - That the authority of the sovereign of the neutral country being interposed in any manner of mere force cannot legally vary the rights of a lawfully commissioned belligerent cruiser.
Page 164 - Indeed, under such extreme straitness and distraction labours the whole body of their finances, so far does their charge outrun their supply in every particular, that no man, I believe, who has considered their affairs with any degree of attention or information, but must hourly look for some extraordinary convulsion in that whole system ; the effect of which on France, and even on all Europe, it is difficult to conjecture.
Page 415 - THERE is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. Within my own memory I have known it rise and fall above thirty degrees. About ten years ago it shot up to a very great height, insomuch that the female part of our species were much taller than the men. The women were of such an enormous stature, that "we appeared as grasshoppers before them...