The Speeches of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Sketch of His Life, Band 1H.G. Bohn, 1842 - 548 Seiten |
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... whole house , he presented the charge against Warren Hastings , relative to the Begum Princesses of Oude , in so powerful a speech , that , at its conclusion , the whole of the assembly joined in a loud and continued tumult of applause ...
... whole house , he presented the charge against Warren Hastings , relative to the Begum Princesses of Oude , in so powerful a speech , that , at its conclusion , the whole of the assembly joined in a loud and continued tumult of applause ...
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... whole of the ceremonial . Like that of his great political rival , Pitt , his eloquence re- quired the stimulus of the bottle . Wine , he said , quickened his circulation and the fancy together ; adding , that he seldom spoke to his own ...
... whole of the ceremonial . Like that of his great political rival , Pitt , his eloquence re- quired the stimulus of the bottle . Wine , he said , quickened his circulation and the fancy together ; adding , that he seldom spoke to his own ...
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... whole of it into one mass of corruption . If those therefore , who sat near him , did not enjoy so genial a warmth as the honourable gentleman , and those who like him kept close to the noble lord in the blue ribbon , he was certain ...
... whole of it into one mass of corruption . If those therefore , who sat near him , did not enjoy so genial a warmth as the honourable gentleman , and those who like him kept close to the noble lord in the blue ribbon , he was certain ...
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... whole was a systematic conspiracy of the enemy , levelled at the being and existence of the empire . This was an opinion which , if it was true , would justify the exertions which had been made : it was at the same time a doctrine which ...
... whole was a systematic conspiracy of the enemy , levelled at the being and existence of the empire . This was an opinion which , if it was true , would justify the exertions which had been made : it was at the same time a doctrine which ...
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... whole upon himself and rests the issuing of the order on its true ground- the necessity of the case . If His Majesty's ministers had fol- lowed the example of the Sovereign , and come down to parliament desiring a bill of indemnity ...
... whole upon himself and rests the issuing of the order on its true ground- the necessity of the case . If His Majesty's ministers had fol- lowed the example of the Sovereign , and come down to parliament desiring a bill of indemnity ...
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able gentleman amendment answer appeared argument assertion begged leave Begums blue riband Britain British Burke called Chancellor charge civil list clause committee conduct considered constitution contended debate debt defence duty EAST INDIA BILL exchequer excise ground Hastings heard high bailiff honourable and learned house of commons India bill Ireland jaghires justice kingdom laws learned gentleman Lord John Cavendish Lord Mulgrave Lord North Lord Thurlow Majesty Majesty's manufacture means measure ment Middleton minister motion moved nabob necessary noble lord noes object occasion opinion papers parliament person Pitt present Prince principle proceeding proposed proposition prove question reason resolution respect revenue right honourable friend right honourable gentle right honourable gentleman royal Sheridan declared Sheridan observed SHERIDAN remarked SHERIDAN rose Sir Elijah Impey speech taken thought tion treasury treaty vote Warren Hastings whole wished words
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Seite 66 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear : the time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end...
Seite 65 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Seite 65 - House; the continuance of the present ministers in trusts of the highest importance and responsibility, is contrary to constitutional principles, and injurious to the interests of his Majesty and his people.
Seite 222 - All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun;
Seite 235 - Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity. In his mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little ; nothing simple, nothing unmixed; all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation ; a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities, with nothing . great but his crimes; and even those contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a trickster.
Seite 433 - Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully and freely representing all the estates of the people of this realm...
Seite vi - I will say more : flattered and encouraged by the right hon. gentleman's panegyric on my talents, if ever I again engage in the compositions he alludes to, I may be tempted to an act of presumption — to attempt an improvement on one of Ben Jonson's best characters, the character of the Angry Boy, in the
Seite 418 - If I could not prove, my lords, that those acts of Mr. Middleton were in reality the acts of Mr. Hastings, I should not trouble your lordships by combating them ; but as this part of his criminality can be incontestably ascertained, I appeal to the assembled legislators of this realm to say whether these acts were justifiable...
Seite 235 - ... that concerned his employers. He remembered to have heard an honourable and learned gentleman (Mr. Dundas) remark, that there was something in the first frame and constitution of the company, which extended the sordid principles of their origin over all their successive operations ; connecting with their civil policy, and even with their boldest achievements, the meanness of a pedlar, and the profligacy of pirates.
Seite 306 - ... it in toto, in point of fact as well as law. The fact not only never could have happened legally, but nerrr did happen in any way whatsoever ; and had, from the beginning, been a base and malicious falsehood.