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... Lords on Thursday the 22d of May , 1794 , on the Treason and Sedition Bills , Lord Thur- low took occasion to mention " a pamphlet which , his lordship said , was published by one Debrett , of Piccadilly , and which had that day been ...
... Lords on Thursday the 22d of May , 1794 , on the Treason and Sedition Bills , Lord Thur- low took occasion to mention " a pamphlet which , his lordship said , was published by one Debrett , of Piccadilly , and which had that day been ...
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... Lords . It is very true , that we were and are extremely dissatisfied with those opinions , and the consequent determinations of the lords ; and we do not think such a mode of proceeding at all justified by the most numerous and the ...
... Lords . It is very true , that we were and are extremely dissatisfied with those opinions , and the consequent determinations of the lords ; and we do not think such a mode of proceeding at all justified by the most numerous and the ...
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... LORDS , ―This business which has so long employed the public councils of this kingdom , so long employed the greatest and most august of its tribunals , now approaches to a close . The wreck and fragments of our cause ( which has been ...
... LORDS , ―This business which has so long employed the public councils of this kingdom , so long employed the greatest and most august of its tribunals , now approaches to a close . The wreck and fragments of our cause ( which has been ...
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... Lords that is upon its trial , it is the British nation that is upon its trial before all other nations , before the present generation , and before a long , long posterity . My lords , I should be ashamed , if at this moment I at ...
... Lords that is upon its trial , it is the British nation that is upon its trial before all other nations , before the present generation , and before a long , long posterity . My lords , I should be ashamed , if at this moment I at ...
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... lords , far from us , I will add , be that false and affected candor , that is eternally in treaty with crime ; that ... lords , we never could forget it ; a long , lasting , deep , bitter memory of it would sink into our minds . My ...
... lords , far from us , I will add , be that false and affected candor , that is eternally in treaty with crime ; that ... lords , we never could forget it ; a long , lasting , deep , bitter memory of it would sink into our minds . My ...
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