The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 8Henry G. Bohn, 1857 - Great Britain |
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... hope I shall not dream of , but leave to those who exercise arbitrary power , in supposing that I could go over the ground which my fellow - managers have once trodden , and make anything more clear and forcible than they have done . In ...
... hope I shall not dream of , but leave to those who exercise arbitrary power , in supposing that I could go over the ground which my fellow - managers have once trodden , and make anything more clear and forcible than they have done . In ...
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... hope your lordships will never be so poor as to cease to be proud ; for ceasing to be proud , you will cease to be independent . 66 Having resolved that the Rajah should not grow rich , for fear he should grow proud and independent , he ...
... hope your lordships will never be so poor as to cease to be proud ; for ceasing to be proud , you will cease to be independent . 66 Having resolved that the Rajah should not grow rich , for fear he should grow proud and independent , he ...
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... hope your lordships will never be so poor as to cease to be proud ; for ceasing to be proud , you will cease to be independent . Having resolved that the Rajah should not grow rich , for fear he should grow proud and independent , he ...
... hope your lordships will never be so poor as to cease to be proud ; for ceasing to be proud , you will cease to be independent . Having resolved that the Rajah should not grow rich , for fear he should grow proud and independent , he ...
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... hope except from your highness , and as the Almighty has formed your mind to be a distributer of justice in these times , I therefore hope from the benignity of your highness that you will inquire and do justice in this matter , and ...
... hope except from your highness , and as the Almighty has formed your mind to be a distributer of justice in these times , I therefore hope from the benignity of your highness that you will inquire and do justice in this matter , and ...
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... hope that , with the assistance of the resident , they may be in part corrected ; one , however , I must mention , because it has been verified by my own observation , and is of that kind which reflects an unmerited reproach on our ...
... hope that , with the assistance of the resident , they may be in part corrected ; one , however , I must mention , because it has been verified by my own observation , and is of that kind which reflects an unmerited reproach on our ...
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Page 293 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have...
Page 79 - Sir, the Nabob having determined to inflict corporal punishment upon the prisoners under your guard, this is to desire that his officers, when they shall come, may have free access to the prisoners, and be permitted to do with them as they shall see proper.
Page 290 - I do not think the congress have any wish to persecute General Burgoyne. I never heard till I received your letter that they had recalled him. If they have made such a resolution, it must be, I suppose, a conditional one ; — to take place in case their offer of exchanging him for Mr. Laurens should not be accepted — a resolution intended to enforce that offer.
Page 290 - I do not think the Congress have any wish to persecute General Burgoyne. I never heard, till I received your letter, that they had recalled him ; if they have made such a resolution, it must be, I suppose, a conditional one, to take place in case their offer of exchanging him for Mr. Laurens should not be accepted ; a resolution intended merely to enforce that offer.
Page 76 - I am sorry it is not in my power to comply with your proposal of easing the prisoners for a few days of their fetters. Much as my humanity may be touched by their sufferings, I should think it inexpedient to afford them any alleviation while they persist in a breach of their contract with me : and, indeed, no indulgence can...
Page 293 - I tell you again, — that the recollection of the manner in which I saw the queen of France, in the year 1774, and the contrast between that brilliancy, splendour, and beauty, with the prostrate homage of a nation to her, — and the abominable scene of 1789, which I was describing, — did draw tears from me and wetted my paper. These tears came again into my eyes, almost as often as I looked at the description ; — they may again.
Page 285 - ... rather against that practice, and have given several reasons for your judgment, which deserve to be very well considered. In order to know how we ought to plough, we ought to know what end it is we propose to ourselves in that operation. The first and instrumental end is to divide the soil ; the last and ultimate end, so far as regards the plants, is to facilitate the pushing of the blade upwards, and the shooting of the roots in all the inferior directions. There is further proposed a more ready...
Page 231 - For now the surgeon must be paid, To whom those perquisites are gone In Christian justice due to John. When food and raiment now grew scarce, Fate put a period to the farce, And with exact poetic justice; For John is landlord, Phyllis hostess: They keep, at Staines, the Old Blue Boar, Are cat and dog, and rogue and whore.
Page 37 - Sekunderpoor, beginning about a coss before he reached the village, an old fort of that name, appeared to a little more advantage; but even here the crops seem very scanty, and the ground more than half fallow.
Page 135 - He began with urging as apologies, that whilst he was not certain of the extent of our demands upon him, he had no real interest in being economical in his expenses; and that while we interfered in the internal management of his affairs, his own authority and that of his Ministers, were despised by his own subjects.