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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks - Page 51
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With a Portrait ..., Volume 4

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1823 - 472 pages
...granary of India. I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of...it with decorum; these details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers ; they...
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The bachelor's wife, a selection of curious and interesting extracts

John Galt - 1824 - 462 pages
...granary of India. I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of...it with decorum ; these details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting ; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers ; they...
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Sequel to The Analytical Reader: In which the Original Design is Extended ...

Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...disturbance, almost without complaint, perished by a hundred a day in the streets of Madras. Every day seventy laid their bodies in the streets, or on the glacis...which beset and waylay the life of man, this comes nearest to our heart, and is that in which the proudest of us all feels himself to be nothing more...
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Praelectiones academicae Oxonii habitae

Edward Copleston - Classical literature - 1828 - 492 pages
...Arcot's Debts." I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of...that wherein the proudest of us all feels himself to Atque haec ille quidem causara agens in Senatu, et in veris calamitatibus versatus. Nos prudentiam...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...every day seventy at least laid their bodies in the streets, or on the glacis of Tanjore, and expir«! of famine in the granary of India. I was going to...plague of hunger. Of all the calamities which beset and waylav the life of man, this comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein the proudest of us...
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The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 614 pages
...sedition or disturbance, almost without complaint, perished by an hundred a day in the streets of Madras ; every day seventy at least laid their bodies in the...it with decorum ; these details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers; they...
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Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added, the ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1841 - 548 pages
...granary of India. I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of...it with decorum : these details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers; they...
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Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ..., Volumes 5-6

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...granary of India. I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of...it with decorum ; these details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting ; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to the hearers ; they...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...granary of India. I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of...myself unable to manage it with decorum ; these details ore of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting ; they are so degrading to the sufferers and...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow-citizens, by bringing before you some of ¡he circumstances of this plague of hunger. Of all the...calamities which beset and waylay the life of man, ;his comes the nearest to our heart, and is that wherein ;he proudest of us all feels himself to be...
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