Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 - Great Britain |
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... England , December 9 , 1789 . Speech of Mr. Curran , on the trial of Archibald Ha- milton Rowan , Esquire , for the publication of a libel . Mr. Pitt's Speech on revenue and expenditure , deli- vered in the House of Commons , February ...
... England , December 9 , 1789 . Speech of Mr. Curran , on the trial of Archibald Ha- milton Rowan , Esquire , for the publication of a libel . Mr. Pitt's Speech on revenue and expenditure , deli- vered in the House of Commons , February ...
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... England , in order to facili- tate the vent of their goods , and to avoid instant insolvency - at that very moment that their servants should appear in so flourishing a condition , as , be- sides ten millions of other demands on their ...
... England , in order to facili- tate the vent of their goods , and to avoid instant insolvency - at that very moment that their servants should appear in so flourishing a condition , as , be- sides ten millions of other demands on their ...
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... England . To go no further than the case before us : you are just as com- petent to judge whether the sum of four millions sterling ought , or ought not , to be passed from the publick treasury into a private pocket , without any title ...
... England . To go no further than the case before us : you are just as com- petent to judge whether the sum of four millions sterling ought , or ought not , to be passed from the publick treasury into a private pocket , without any title ...
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... England . Not content with winking at these abuses , whilst he at- tempts to squeeze the laborious ill - paid drudges of English revenue , he lavishes in one act of corrupt prodigality , upon those who never served the publick in any ...
... England . Not content with winking at these abuses , whilst he at- tempts to squeeze the laborious ill - paid drudges of English revenue , he lavishes in one act of corrupt prodigality , upon those who never served the publick in any ...
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... England ) are on the point of being converted into a mystery of state . You are going to have one half of the globe hid even from the common liberal curiosity of an English gentleman . Here a grand revolution commences . Mark the period ...
... England ) are on the point of being converted into a mystery of state . You are going to have one half of the globe hid even from the common liberal curiosity of an English gentleman . Here a grand revolution commences . Mark the period ...
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