The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... whole peers of Great Britain , by confiscating the whole of the estates at once , as a government resource , with- out the charge or pretence of any crime , I say that such an act would be oppressive , cruel , and wicked in the highest ...
... whole peers of Great Britain , by confiscating the whole of the estates at once , as a government resource , with- out the charge or pretence of any crime , I say that such an act would be oppressive , cruel , and wicked in the highest ...
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... whole interest in the land con- sists in the jaghires : for very few indeed of them are zemindars anywhere , in some of the provinces none of them are so ; the whole of them are jaghiredars . We have heard , my Lords , much discussion ...
... whole interest in the land con- sists in the jaghires : for very few indeed of them are zemindars anywhere , in some of the provinces none of them are so ; the whole of them are jaghiredars . We have heard , my Lords , much discussion ...
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... whole , as you will find in the paper to which we refer you . By this con- fiscation , therefore , the Nabob was authorized to re- sume grants of which he had not been the grantor . [ Mr. Burke here read the list of the jaghires . ] Now ...
... whole , as you will find in the paper to which we refer you . By this con- fiscation , therefore , the Nabob was authorized to re- sume grants of which he had not been the grantor . [ Mr. Burke here read the list of the jaghires . ] Now ...
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... whole into train . This tardiness , and the opposition prepared to the only decided act yet undertaken , have a bad appearance . I approve the Nabob's resolutions to deprive the Begums of their ill - employed treasures . In both ...
... whole into train . This tardiness , and the opposition prepared to the only decided act yet undertaken , have a bad appearance . I approve the Nabob's resolutions to deprive the Begums of their ill - employed treasures . In both ...
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... any other tribunal in the king- dom ; but let me get money enough , and they won't care how I get it . The estates of whole bodies of nobility may be confiscated ; a people who had lived SPEECH IN REPLY .. 29 -- - FIFTH DAY .
... any other tribunal in the king- dom ; but let me get money enough , and they won't care how I get it . The estates of whole bodies of nobility may be confiscated ; a people who had lived SPEECH IN REPLY .. 29 -- - FIFTH DAY .
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