The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 15C. and J. Rivington, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... proceed to state what has been already done in this Cause , and in what condition it now stands for your judgment . An immense mass of criminality was digested . by a Committee of the House of Commons ; but although this mass had been ...
... proceed to state what has been already done in this Cause , and in what condition it now stands for your judgment . An immense mass of criminality was digested . by a Committee of the House of Commons ; but although this mass had been ...
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... proceed , my Lords , to the next recri- minatory charge , which is delay . I confess I am not astonished at this charge . From the first records of human impatience , down to the pre- sent time , it has been complained that the march of ...
... proceed , my Lords , to the next recri- minatory charge , which is delay . I confess I am not astonished at this charge . From the first records of human impatience , down to the pre- sent time , it has been complained that the march of ...
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... proceed- ings more expensive than private ones . Dover said , that before he presented the petition he had felt exactly in the same manner ; but that Mr. Hastings assured him , that six thousand pounds had been paid to copying clerks in ...
... proceed- ings more expensive than private ones . Dover said , that before he presented the petition he had felt exactly in the same manner ; but that Mr. Hastings assured him , that six thousand pounds had been paid to copying clerks in ...
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... proceed to state , that it was a government of misrule , productive of no happiness to the peo- ple , and that it so continued until subverted by the free government of Britain , namely , the government that Mr. Hastings describes as ...
... proceed to state , that it was a government of misrule , productive of no happiness to the peo- ple , and that it so continued until subverted by the free government of Britain , namely , the government that Mr. Hastings describes as ...
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... proceed to the Tartarian government of India , a government established by conquest , and therefore not likely to be distinguished by any marks of extra- ordinary mildness towards the conquered . The book before me will prove to your ...
... proceed to the Tartarian government of India , a government established by conquest , and therefore not likely to be distinguished by any marks of extra- ordinary mildness towards the conquered . The book before me will prove to your ...
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