Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Tom 3Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... demand of a suspect- ed steward upon ruined tenants and an embarrassed master , that the commons of Great Britain are com- manded not to inspect . The whole tenour of the right honourable gentleman's argument is consonant to the nature ...
... demand of a suspect- ed steward upon ruined tenants and an embarrassed master , that the commons of Great Britain are com- manded not to inspect . The whole tenour of the right honourable gentleman's argument is consonant to the nature ...
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... demand , the nabob of Arcot is always ready , nay , he earnestly , and with eagerness and passion , contends for delivering up to these pretended credi- tors his territory and his subjects . It is therefore not from treasuries and mines ...
... demand , the nabob of Arcot is always ready , nay , he earnestly , and with eagerness and passion , contends for delivering up to these pretended credi- tors his territory and his subjects . It is therefore not from treasuries and mines ...
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... demand without such in- quiry as the act has prescribed ; but they have added the arrear of twelve per cent . interest , from the year 1777 to the year 1784 , to make a new capital , raising thereby 160 to 294,000l . Then they charge a ...
... demand without such in- quiry as the act has prescribed ; but they have added the arrear of twelve per cent . interest , from the year 1777 to the year 1784 , to make a new capital , raising thereby 160 to 294,000l . Then they charge a ...
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... demand ? without an attempt so much as to ascertain the real persons claiming a sum , which rises in the accounts from one million three hundred thousand pounds sterling to two millions four hundred thousand pounds principal money ...
... demand ? without an attempt so much as to ascertain the real persons claiming a sum , which rises in the accounts from one million three hundred thousand pounds sterling to two millions four hundred thousand pounds principal money ...
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... demand upon the treasury in England ? Instead of all this cunning , is there not one plain way open , that is , to put the burthen of the proof on those who make the demand ? Ought not ministry to have said to the creditors : " The ...
... demand upon the treasury in England ? Instead of all this cunning , is there not one plain way open , that is , to put the burthen of the proof on those who make the demand ? Ought not ministry to have said to the creditors : " The ...
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