The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 12Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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... desire for this meeting , his letter was unquestion- ably dictated to him by the prisoner . We have laid a ground of direct proof before you , that the Nabob's being at Chunar , that his proceedings there , and that all his acts were so ...
... desire for this meeting , his letter was unquestion- ably dictated to him by the prisoner . We have laid a ground of direct proof before you , that the Nabob's being at Chunar , that his proceedings there , and that all his acts were so ...
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... desire , that the apparent assumption of the reins of his government , ( for in that light he undoubtedly considered it at the first view , ) as specified in the agreement execut- ed by him , was not meant to be fully and literally ...
... desire , that the apparent assumption of the reins of his government , ( for in that light he undoubtedly considered it at the first view , ) as specified in the agreement execut- ed by him , was not meant to be fully and literally ...
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... desire to yield me satisfaction on the subject under discussion ; for , after a great deal of conversation , consisting on his part of trifling evasion and puerile excuses for withholding his assent to the measure , though at the same ...
... desire to yield me satisfaction on the subject under discussion ; for , after a great deal of conversation , consisting on his part of trifling evasion and puerile excuses for withholding his assent to the measure , though at the same ...
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... desire that you will immediately order bearers to be stationed , for myself and two other gen- tlemen , between Lucknow and Allahabad , and I will set out from hence in three days after the receipt of your letter . " I am sorry that I ...
... desire that you will immediately order bearers to be stationed , for myself and two other gen- tlemen , between Lucknow and Allahabad , and I will set out from hence in three days after the receipt of your letter . " I am sorry that I ...
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... desire , obliquely expressed , to get the landed estates of all these great families . But even while he was meeting with such reluctance in the Nabob upon this point , and though he also met with some resistance upon the part even of ...
... desire , obliquely expressed , to get the landed estates of all these great families . But even while he was meeting with such reluctance in the Nabob upon this point , and though he also met with some resistance upon the part even of ...
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