The North Briton, XLVI: Numbers Complete, Volume 4

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Page 52 - You are a murderer, you want to kill me, but I am sure I shall kill you — I know I shall, by ! If you will fight, if you will kill me, I hope you will be hanged. I know you will.
Page 54 - His lordship paid me the highest encomiums on my courage, and said he would declare everywhere that I was the noblest fellow God had ever made. He then desired that we might now be good friends, and retire to the Inn to drink a bottle of claret together, which we did with great good humour and much laugh.
Page 51 - After the waiter had brought pen, ink, and paper, I propofed that the door of the room might be locked, and not opened till our bufinefs was decided. Lord Talbot, on this propofition, became quite outrageous, declared that this was mere butchery, and that I was a wretch who fought his life.
Page 259 - Pratt, with the eloquence and courage of old Rome, was enforcing the great principles of Magna Charta and the English constitution ; while every breast from...
Page 204 - I may be able effectually to ftop the progrefs of a report, which if at firft propagated only wantonly, will, I fear, if not traced to its fource, in the end have the fame bad effects, as if it had.
Page 52 - ... paper to which he had not ; that this was my undoubted right, which I was ready to seal with my blood.
Page 261 - Chelsea, but now dwelling at Copenhagen, being there in company with you, said, ' I think you were none of the late King's judges, nor guilty of his death ;
Page 58 - Third was held in the moft abfolute fiavery by his mother and her minifter. The firft nobles of England were excluded from the King's councils, and the minion difpofed of all places of profit and truft. The King's uncles did not retain the fhadow of power and
Page 51 - I did not mean to quit him, but would absolutely first settle some important business relative to the education of an only daughter, whom I tenderly loved, that it would take up...

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