The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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Page 19
... reason , and to have recourse to fixed principles , but , by compelling an instant and tumultuous decision , too often obliges men to decide in a manner , that calm judgment would certainly have rejected . We know , as we are to be ...
... reason , and to have recourse to fixed principles , but , by compelling an instant and tumultuous decision , too often obliges men to decide in a manner , that calm judgment would certainly have rejected . We know , as we are to be ...
Page 29
... reason and propriety - eundem negotiato- rem et dominum : the same power became the general tra- der , the same power became the supreme lord . In this exalted situation the India company , however , still preserves traces of its ...
... reason and propriety - eundem negotiato- rem et dominum : the same power became the general tra- der , the same power became the supreme lord . In this exalted situation the India company , however , still preserves traces of its ...
Page 41
... reason , that the company's servants in India , in order to free themselves from this horrid and atrocious servitude , are obliged to become instruments of another tyranny , and must prostitute them- selves to men in power , in order to ...
... reason , that the company's servants in India , in order to free themselves from this horrid and atrocious servitude , are obliged to become instruments of another tyranny , and must prostitute them- selves to men in power , in order to ...
Page 85
... reason to complain of being left to the execution of his own projects in his own way . The treaty was made , and amount- ed to this , that the company was to receive three great pro- vinces ; for here , as we proceed , you will have an ...
... reason to complain of being left to the execution of his own projects in his own way . The treaty was made , and amount- ed to this , that the company was to receive three great pro- vinces ; for here , as we proceed , you will have an ...
Page 93
... reason he was firmly attached to him ; he might depend completely on his services ; he was his against Mahomed Reza Cawn , and against the whole world . There was , however , a flaw in the nabob's title , which it was necessary should ...
... reason he was firmly attached to him ; he might depend completely on his services ; he was his against Mahomed Reza Cawn , and against the whole world . There was , however , a flaw in the nabob's title , which it was necessary should ...
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