The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... India would escape amidst the dissensions of parliament . They are disappointed . They will be disappointed in all the rest of their expectations , which they have formed upon every thing , except the merits of their cause . The Commons ...
... India would escape amidst the dissensions of parliament . They are disappointed . They will be disappointed in all the rest of their expectations , which they have formed upon every thing , except the merits of their cause . The Commons ...
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... India , inseparably connected as they are with the principles , which support them , the whole character of your future government in that distant empire is to be unalterably decided . It will take its perpetual tenour , it will receive ...
... India , inseparably connected as they are with the principles , which support them , the whole character of your future government in that distant empire is to be unalterably decided . It will take its perpetual tenour , it will receive ...
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... India have constantly engaged the attention of the Commons for more than fourteen years . We may safely affirm , we have tried every mode of legislative provision , before we had recourse to any thing of penal process . It was in the ...
... India have constantly engaged the attention of the Commons for more than fourteen years . We may safely affirm , we have tried every mode of legislative provision , before we had recourse to any thing of penal process . It was in the ...
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... India in rank , authority , and station . We have brought before you the chief of the tribe , the head of the whole body of eastern offenders ; a captain - general of iniqui- ty , under whom all the fraud , all the peculation , all the ...
... India in rank , authority , and station . We have brought before you the chief of the tribe , the head of the whole body of eastern offenders ; a captain - general of iniqui- ty , under whom all the fraud , all the peculation , all the ...
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... India through a thousand channels , publick and concealed ; and it is no particular derogation from our honour to suppose a possibility of being corrupted by that , by which other empires have been corrupted , and assem- blies , almost ...
... India through a thousand channels , publick and concealed ; and it is no particular derogation from our honour to suppose a possibility of being corrupted by that , by which other empires have been corrupted , and assem- blies , almost ...
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