The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... matter to be otherwise un- derstood than I have taken up and stated it , I need not say I shall be ready to conform to whatever you may prescribe , and to take upon myself any share of the blame of the hitherto non - performance of the ...
... matter to be otherwise un- derstood than I have taken up and stated it , I need not say I shall be ready to conform to whatever you may prescribe , and to take upon myself any share of the blame of the hitherto non - performance of the ...
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... matter as the Governor - General may wish . Now a man who is master of the manner in which facts are represented , and whose subsequent conduct is to be justified by such representations , is not sim- ply accountable for his conduct ...
... matter as the Governor - General may wish . Now a man who is master of the manner in which facts are represented , and whose subsequent conduct is to be justified by such representations , is not sim- ply accountable for his conduct ...
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... matter . " The Nabob , " says he , " would have confiscated all the rest , except his orderlies , whom he would have spared ; but I , find- ing where his partiality lay , compelled him to sacri- fice the whole ; for otherwise he would ...
... matter . " The Nabob , " says he , " would have confiscated all the rest , except his orderlies , whom he would have spared ; but I , find- ing where his partiality lay , compelled him to sacri- fice the whole ; for otherwise he would ...
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... matter of such immediate moment , and involving , apparently , such very serious and important consequences , that I have not only taken upon me to suspend the commu- nication of it to the Nabob until I should be honored with your ...
... matter of such immediate moment , and involving , apparently , such very serious and important consequences , that I have not only taken upon me to suspend the commu- nication of it to the Nabob until I should be honored with your ...
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... matter . How stands it now , more than twelve years after the seizure of their goods , at ten thousand miles ' distance ? You ask of these women , buried in the depths of Asia , secluded from human commerce , what is their title to ...
... matter . How stands it now , more than twelve years after the seizure of their goods , at ten thousand miles ' distance ? You ask of these women , buried in the depths of Asia , secluded from human commerce , what is their title to ...
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