The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... heard , my Lords , much discussion about jaghires . It is in proof before your Lordships that they are of two sorts : that a jaghire signifies exactly what the word fee does in the English language , or feodum in the barbarous Latin of ...
... heard , my Lords , much discussion about jaghires . It is in proof before your Lordships that they are of two sorts : that a jaghire signifies exactly what the word fee does in the English language , or feodum in the barbarous Latin of ...
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... heard Ali Ibrahim Khân referred to . This Mahometan lawyer was carried by Mr. Hastings up to Benares , to be a witness of the vast good he had done in that province , and was made Chief - Justice there . All , indeed , that we know of ...
... heard Ali Ibrahim Khân referred to . This Mahometan lawyer was carried by Mr. Hastings up to Benares , to be a witness of the vast good he had done in that province , and was made Chief - Justice there . All , indeed , that we know of ...
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... heard of since the world began . Mr. Hastings begins with seizing the goods of the Begums at Fyzabad , nine thousand miles from you , and fourteen years after tries the title in an English court , without having one person to appear for ...
... heard of since the world began . Mr. Hastings begins with seizing the goods of the Begums at Fyzabad , nine thousand miles from you , and fourteen years after tries the title in an English court , without having one person to appear for ...
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... heard that any woman has done so since the time of Zenobia , in another part of the East ; and we know that in Persia no person can be VOL . XII . 4 hold the face of a woman of rank , or SPEECH IN REPLY . - FIFTH DAY . 49.
... heard that any woman has done so since the time of Zenobia , in another part of the East ; and we know that in Persia no person can be VOL . XII . 4 hold the face of a woman of rank , or SPEECH IN REPLY . - FIFTH DAY . 49.
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... heard the voice of the turtle in the land . You hear the soft cooing , the gentle addresses , " Oh , my hopes ! " to - day , " My fears ! " to - morrow , all the language of friendship , almost heightened into love ; and it comes at ...
... heard the voice of the turtle in the land . You hear the soft cooing , the gentle addresses , " Oh , my hopes ! " to - day , " My fears ! " to - morrow , all the language of friendship , almost heightened into love ; and it comes at ...
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