The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 10Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... Lordships the direct articles , to apply the evidence to the articles , and to bring the matter for- ward for your Lordships ' decision in that manner which the confidence we have in the justice of our cause demands from the Commons of ...
... Lordships the direct articles , to apply the evidence to the articles , and to bring the matter for- ward for your Lordships ' decision in that manner which the confidence we have in the justice of our cause demands from the Commons of ...
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... Lordships will observe in the charges before you , an article of charge by itself , but likewise so intermixes with the whole , that it is necessary to give , in the best manner I am able , a history of that corrupt system which brought ...
... Lordships will observe in the charges before you , an article of charge by itself , but likewise so intermixes with the whole , that it is necessary to give , in the best manner I am able , a history of that corrupt system which brought ...
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... Lordships . They have said , noth- ing shall be taken for their private use ; for though in that and in every state there may be subsidiary treaties by which sums of money may be received , yet they forbid their servants , their ...
... Lordships . They have said , noth- ing shall be taken for their private use ; for though in that and in every state there may be subsidiary treaties by which sums of money may be received , yet they forbid their servants , their ...
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... Lordships . They were almost all let to Calcutta banians . Cal- cutta banians were the farmers of almost the whole . They sub - delegated to others , who sometimes had sub - delegates under them ad infinitum . The whole formed a system ...
... Lordships . They were almost all let to Calcutta banians . Cal- cutta banians were the farmers of almost the whole . They sub - delegated to others , who sometimes had sub - delegates under them ad infinitum . The whole formed a system ...
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... Lordships that an attempt to set up the whole landed interest of a kingdom to auction must be attended , not only in that act , but every consequential act , with most griev- , ous and terrible consequences . My Lords , I will now come ...
... Lordships that an attempt to set up the whole landed interest of a kingdom to auction must be attended , not only in that act , but every consequential act , with most griev- , ous and terrible consequences . My Lords , I will now come ...
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