The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Edmund Burke. ture with the Nabob , or the necessity of employing our forces on the reduction of his aumils and troops . This done , I can begin the work in three days after my return from Fyzabad . " Besides this letter , which I think ...
Edmund Burke. ture with the Nabob , or the necessity of employing our forces on the reduction of his aumils and troops . This done , I can begin the work in three days after my return from Fyzabad . " Besides this letter , which I think ...
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... force should otherwise have compelled him to accede to . The first circumstance in this transaction that I shall lay before your Lordships is that the treaty is declared to have for its objects two modes of reliev ing the Nabob from his ...
... force should otherwise have compelled him to accede to . The first circumstance in this transaction that I shall lay before your Lordships is that the treaty is declared to have for its objects two modes of reliev ing the Nabob from his ...
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... force upon him . this abandoned and wicked confiscation of the prop- erty of the whole nobility of a great country . All that he says is this , " The Nabob may be permitted to resume these jaghires . " Why permitted ? If the act - - had ...
... force upon him . this abandoned and wicked confiscation of the prop- erty of the whole nobility of a great country . All that he says is this , " The Nabob may be permitted to resume these jaghires . " Why permitted ? If the act - - had ...
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... force . " Mr. Middleton neverthe- less proceeds ; he sends the family of the Nabob out of the country ; but he entertains fears of a general revolt as the consequence of this tyrannical act , and refers the case back to Mr. Hastings ...
... force . " Mr. Middleton neverthe- less proceeds ; he sends the family of the Nabob out of the country ; but he entertains fears of a general revolt as the consequence of this tyrannical act , and refers the case back to Mr. Hastings ...
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... force me to make mine . He left me without any reply , but afterwards sent for his minister , and au thorized him to give me hopes that my requisition would be complied with ; on which I expressed my SPEECH IN REPLY . 19 - FIFTH DAY .
... force me to make mine . He left me without any reply , but afterwards sent for his minister , and au thorized him to give me hopes that my requisition would be complied with ; on which I expressed my SPEECH IN REPLY . 19 - FIFTH DAY .
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