The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Political miscellaniesGeorge Bell and Sons, 1891 - Great Britain |
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... Company to the crown , to parliament , and to the peculiar laws , rights , and usages of the people of Hindostan . What reference , I say , had these topics to the constitution of France ; in which there is no King , no Lords , no ...
... Company to the crown , to parliament , and to the peculiar laws , rights , and usages of the people of Hindostan . What reference , I say , had these topics to the constitution of France ; in which there is no King , no Lords , no ...
Page 116
... Company . Being thus established in a consider- able part of the dominions he now possesses , he began , about the year 1765 , to form , at the instigation ( as he asserts ) of the servants of the East - India Company , a.
... Company . Being thus established in a consider- able part of the dominions he now possesses , he began , about the year 1765 , to form , at the instigation ( as he asserts ) of the servants of the East - India Company , a.
Page 117
... Company's arms ; nor could those arms be employed consistently with an obedience to the Company's orders . He was therefore advised to form a more secret , but an equally powerful , in- terest among the servants of that Company , and ...
... Company's arms ; nor could those arms be employed consistently with an obedience to the Company's orders . He was therefore advised to form a more secret , but an equally powerful , in- terest among the servants of that Company , and ...
Page 118
... Company itself was so distressed , as to require a suspension , by act of parliament , of the payment of bills drawn on them from India - and also a direct tax upon every house , in England , in order to facilitate the vent of their ...
... Company itself was so distressed , as to require a suspension , by act of parliament , of the payment of bills drawn on them from India - and also a direct tax upon every house , in England , in order to facilitate the vent of their ...
Page 120
... territories of the former of these princes had been twice invaded and pillaged , and the prince deposed and im- prisoned , by the Company's servants , influenced by the in- trigues of the latter , and for the purpose of 120 ADVERTISEMENT .
... territories of the former of these princes had been twice invaded and pillaged , and the prince deposed and im- prisoned , by the Company's servants , influenced by the in- trigues of the latter , and for the purpose of 120 ADVERTISEMENT .
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