The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 10Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 49
... half the villanies in the world . To argue that these could not be his reasons , because they were not wise , sound , and substantial , would be to suppose , what is not true , that bad men were always discreet and able . But I can very ...
... half the villanies in the world . To argue that these could not be his reasons , because they were not wise , sound , and substantial , would be to suppose , what is not true , that bad men were always discreet and able . But I can very ...
Page 62
... half - brother and an adopted son . A litigation respecting the succession instantly arose in the family ; and this litigation was of course re- ferred to , and was finally to be decided by , the Gov- ernor - General in Council ...
... half - brother and an adopted son . A litigation respecting the succession instantly arose in the family ; and this litigation was of course re- ferred to , and was finally to be decided by , the Gov- ernor - General in Council ...
Page 70
... half depopulated and totally ruined . The farm , on the expiration of his lease , was taken by a set of adventurers in this kind of traffic from Calcutta . But when the new undertakers came to survey the object of their future ...
... half depopulated and totally ruined . The farm , on the expiration of his lease , was taken by a set of adventurers in this kind of traffic from Calcutta . But when the new undertakers came to survey the object of their future ...
Page 75
... half dead from office , began at length to respire ; he found elbow - room once more to display his genuine nature and disposition , and to make amends in a riot and debauch of peculation for the forced abstinence to which he was ...
... half dead from office , began at length to respire ; he found elbow - room once more to display his genuine nature and disposition , and to make amends in a riot and debauch of peculation for the forced abstinence to which he was ...
Page 95
... half - famished wretches , who rent heaven with their cries and howlings , left him no sort of doubt of the real cause of the late tumults . In his first letters he conveyed his sentiments to the Committee with . these memorable words ...
... half - famished wretches , who rent heaven with their cries and howlings , left him no sort of doubt of the real cause of the late tumults . In his first letters he conveyed his sentiments to the Committee with . these memorable words ...
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