Writings and Speeches, Volume 3Little Brown and Company, 1901 |
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... means of showing to the world that we deserve the superintendence of as large an empire as this kingdom ever held ... mean , sordid , home - bred cares that will avert the consequences of a false esti- mation of our interest , or prevent ...
... means of showing to the world that we deserve the superintendence of as large an empire as this kingdom ever held ... mean , sordid , home - bred cares that will avert the consequences of a false esti- mation of our interest , or prevent ...
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... means which were furnished in anxious and inquisitive times to demonstrate out of this single act of the present minister what advan- tages you are to derive from permitting the greatest concern of this nation to be separated from the ...
... means which were furnished in anxious and inquisitive times to demonstrate out of this single act of the present minister what advan- tages you are to derive from permitting the greatest concern of this nation to be separated from the ...
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... means a small num- ber of slight individuals , of no consequence or situa- tion , possessed of no lucrative offices , without the command of armies or the known administration of revenues , without profession of any kind , without any ...
... means a small num- ber of slight individuals , of no consequence or situa- tion , possessed of no lucrative offices , without the command of armies or the known administration of revenues , without profession of any kind , without any ...
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... you or I account for such immense fortunes ac- quired in so short a time , without any visible means of getting them ? " - When he asked this question , which involves its answer 26 SPEECH ON THE NABOB OF ARCOT'S DEBTS .
... you or I account for such immense fortunes ac- quired in so short a time , without any visible means of getting them ? " - When he asked this question , which involves its answer 26 SPEECH ON THE NABOB OF ARCOT'S DEBTS .
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... means pointed particularly to this class of debts , came like a thunderclap on the Nabob . He considered his political credit as ruined ; but to * Nabob's letter to Governor Palk . Papers published by the Di- rectors in 1775 ; and ...
... means pointed particularly to this class of debts , came like a thunderclap on the Nabob . He considered his political credit as ruined ; but to * Nabob's letter to Governor Palk . Papers published by the Di- rectors in 1775 ; and ...
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Page 360 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
Page 281 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 70 - ... and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance ; and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Page 71 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and 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 345 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of Prance, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, — glittering like the...
Page 347 - On this scheme of things a king is but a man, a queen is but a woman ; a woman is but an animal, and an animal not of the highest order; all homage paid to the sex in general as such, •and without distinct views, is to be regarded as romance and folly.
Page 365 - We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religious animal; that atheism is against, not only our reason, but our instincts; and that it cannot prevail long.
Page 347 - Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of the commonwealth. On the principles of this mechanic philosophy, onr institutions can never be embodied, if I may use the expression, in persons, — so as to create in us love, veneration, admiration, or attachment. But that sort of reason which banishes the affections is incapable of filling their place. These public affections, combined with manners, are required sometimes as supplements, sometimes as correctives, always as aids to law.
Page 324 - Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body as well as in the ' • * individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their...
Page 327 - I am at no loss to decide that the artificers are grossly ignorant of their trade, or totally negligent of their duty. The simple governments are fundamentally defective, to say no worse of them. If you were to contemplate society in but one point of view, all these simple modes of polity are infinitely captivating. In effect each would answer its single end much more perfectly than the more complex is able to attain all its complex purposes. But it is better that the whole should be imperfectly...