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... manner as to prevent either rivalship with , or subserviency to , It might therefore be proper for the house to consider , whether it is fit , that those who are , or have been within some given time , directors of the company , should ...
... manner as to prevent either rivalship with , or subserviency to , It might therefore be proper for the house to consider , whether it is fit , that those who are , or have been within some given time , directors of the company , should ...
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... manner as to prevent either rivalship with , or subserviency to , It might therefore be proper for the house to consider , whether it is fit , that those who are , or have been within some given time , directors of the company , should ...
... manner as to prevent either rivalship with , or subserviency to , It might therefore be proper for the house to consider , whether it is fit , that those who are , or have been within some given time , directors of the company , should ...
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... manner the inspection of the ministers has ministers of the Crown , the great ce- menting regulation of the whole act of 1773 , has , along with all the others , entirely failed in its effects . | medium . A scarcity of coin was already ...
... manner the inspection of the ministers has ministers of the Crown , the great ce- menting regulation of the whole act of 1773 , has , along with all the others , entirely failed in its effects . | medium . A scarcity of coin was already ...
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... manner which will be stated hereafter . But , with all these endeavours of the presidency , the investment sunk in 1769 , and they were even obliged to pay for a part of the goods to private merchants in the company's bonds , bearing in ...
... manner which will be stated hereafter . But , with all these endeavours of the presidency , the investment sunk in 1769 , and they were even obliged to pay for a part of the goods to private merchants in the company's bonds , bearing in ...
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... manner , in which they arrive by royal and parliamentary charters , was invested at any knowledge of it , is no less so . The letter to with several ample privileges , and even with a de- Lord Macartney , by which the variation is disco ...
... manner , in which they arrive by royal and parliamentary charters , was invested at any knowledge of it , is no less so . The letter to with several ample privileges , and even with a de- Lord Macartney , by which the variation is disco ...
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Page 258 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Page 329 - Then to advise how war may best, upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Page 307 - And turn the unwilling steeds another way ; Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle and unopening door ; . While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat.
Page 352 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence.
Page 283 - The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity .. the rest is crime.
Page 259 - ... rights ; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order, for every kind and every quality, of property and of dignity; — as long as these endure, so long the Duke of Bedford is safe: and we are all safe together — the high from the blights of envy and the spoliations of rapacity; the low from the iron hand of oppression and the insolent spurn of contempt. Amen ! and so be it : and so it will be, Dum domus JEnea Capitoli immobile saxum Accolet ; imperiumque pater Romanus habebit.
Page 258 - I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. Indeed, my lord, I greatly deceive myself, if, in this hard season, I would give a peck of refuse wheat for all that is called fame and honor in the world.
Page 266 - At the very moment when some of them seemed plunged in unfathomable abysses of disgrace and disaster, they have suddenly emerged. They have begun a new course, and opened a new reckoning ; and even in the depths of their calamity, and on the very ruins of their country, have laid the foundations of a towering and durable greatness. All this has happened without any apparent previous change in the general circumstances which had brought on their distress . the death of a man at a critical juncture,...
Page 251 - He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business, of infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested.
Page 277 - Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? And there were also two others, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.