The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 8Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... provinces of Bengal , Bahar , and Orissa , and to report the same , as it shall appear to them , to the House , with their observations thereupon ; and who were instructed to consider how the British pos- sessions in the East Indies may ...
... provinces of Bengal , Bahar , and Orissa , and to report the same , as it shall appear to them , to the House , with their observations thereupon ; and who were instructed to consider how the British pos- sessions in the East Indies may ...
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... province in Great Brit- ain . Your Committee have long had the constitu- tion and conduct of this court before them , and they have not yet been able to discover very few instances ( not one that appears to them of leading importance ) ...
... province in Great Brit- ain . Your Committee have long had the constitu- tion and conduct of this court before them , and they have not yet been able to discover very few instances ( not one that appears to them of leading importance ) ...
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... province , yet , distributed through the various departments of civil administration , served in some degree to preserve the natives of the better sort , particularly those of the Mahomedan profession , from being utterly ruined . The ...
... province , yet , distributed through the various departments of civil administration , served in some degree to preserve the natives of the better sort , particularly those of the Mahomedan profession , from being utterly ruined . The ...
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... provinces of the Mogul Empire were then pop- ulous and opulent , and intercourse to an immense amount was carried on between them and Bengal . A great trade also passed through these provinces from all ON THE AFFAIRS OF INDIA . 53.
... provinces of the Mogul Empire were then pop- ulous and opulent , and intercourse to an immense amount was carried on between them and Bengal . A great trade also passed through these provinces from all ON THE AFFAIRS OF INDIA . 53.
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... provinces followed this revolution , which was not absolutely complete until it received the last hand from Great Britain . Still greater calamities have fallen upon the fine provinces of Rohilcund and Oude , and on the countries of Co ...
... provinces followed this revolution , which was not absolutely complete until it received the last hand from Great Britain . Still greater calamities have fallen upon the fine provinces of Rohilcund and Oude , and on the countries of Co ...
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