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Page 115
... necessary to enable them to fulfil their engagements with the Company . " The
effect which so long continued a monopoly , followed by a preëmption , and then
by partial preferences supported by power , must necessarily have in weakening
...
... necessary to enable them to fulfil their engagements with the Company . " The
effect which so long continued a monopoly , followed by a preëmption , and then
by partial preferences supported by power , must necessarily have in weakening
...
Page 121
The Council , however , submitting to the opinion of this necessity , endeavored
to render that dubious engagement as beneficial as possible to the Company .
They began by putting up the contract to the highest bidder . The proposals were
to ...
The Council , however , submitting to the opinion of this necessity , endeavored
to render that dubious engagement as beneficial as possible to the Company .
They began by putting up the contract to the highest bidder . The proposals were
to ...
Page 122
The terms were , indeed , something better for the Company ; and the
engagement was subject to qualifications , which , though they did not remove
the objection to the breach of the Company's orders , prevented the hands of the
Directors ...
The terms were , indeed , something better for the Company ; and the
engagement was subject to qualifications , which , though they did not remove
the objection to the breach of the Company's orders , prevented the hands of the
Directors ...
Page 126
... not obliged to advance to the cultivator more than what he thought expedient ;
but if this should not be enough , he might , if he pleased , draw the whole
payment before the total delivery : such were the terms of the engagement with
him .
... not obliged to advance to the cultivator more than what he thought expedient ;
but if this should not be enough , he might , if he pleased , draw the whole
payment before the total delivery : such were the terms of the engagement with
him .
Page 129
... falling market by long and heavy engagements . He ought studiously to have
kept in his power the means of proportioning the supply to the demand . But his
arguments , and those of the Council on that occasion , do not deserve the
smallest ...
... falling market by long and heavy engagements . He ought studiously to have
kept in his power the means of proportioning the supply to the demand . But his
arguments , and those of the Council on that occasion , do not deserve the
smallest ...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 8 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Publisher | Little, Brown,, 1881 |
| Original from | Michigan State University |
| Digitized | 26 Apr 2013 |
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