The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... transactions in 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 ...
... transactions in 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 ...
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... transactions of life . But here you are caught , as it were , into another world ; you are to have the way pioneered before you . As the subject is new , it must be explained ; as it is intricate as well as new , that explana- tion can ...
... transactions of life . But here you are caught , as it were , into another world ; you are to have the way pioneered before you . As the subject is new , it must be explained ; as it is intricate as well as new , that explana- tion can ...
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... transactions , publick and private : they are bound to do this by an express covenant . They oblige them , as a corrective upon that diary , to keep a letter- book , in which all their letters are to be regularly entered . And they are ...
... transactions , publick and private : they are bound to do this by an express covenant . They oblige them , as a corrective upon that diary , to keep a letter- book , in which all their letters are to be regularly entered . And they are ...
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... transaction in your service , and every expenditure , a matter of record . " My lords , this method not only must produce to them , if strictly observed , a more accurate idea of the nature of their affairs , and the nature of their ...
... transaction in your service , and every expenditure , a matter of record . " My lords , this method not only must produce to them , if strictly observed , a more accurate idea of the nature of their affairs , and the nature of their ...
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... transactions with the Mogul government , carried the evident marks of this free condition in a noble independency of spirit . With- in their own districts the authority of many of them seemed entire . We are often led into mistakes ...
... transactions with the Mogul government , carried the evident marks of this free condition in a noble independency of spirit . With- in their own districts the authority of many of them seemed entire . We are often led into mistakes ...
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