The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Political miscellaniesGeorge Bell and Sons, 1891 - Great Britain |
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Page 135
... usury , and peculation , under the false names of debtors and creditors of state . * The great patron of these creditors , ( to whose honour they ought to erect statues , ) the right honourable gentle- man , ' in stating the merits ...
... usury , and peculation , under the false names of debtors and creditors of state . * The great patron of these creditors , ( to whose honour they ought to erect statues , ) the right honourable gentle- man , ' in stating the merits ...
Page 140
... usury which prevailed at Madras , thought it necessary to interfere , and to order all interests to be lowered to 10 per cent . This order , which contained no exception , though it by no means pointed particularly to this class of ...
... usury which prevailed at Madras , thought it necessary to interfere , and to order all interests to be lowered to 10 per cent . This order , which contained no exception , though it by no means pointed particularly to this class of ...
Page 142
... usury and oppression , to re- new their ravages throughout the devoted revenues of the Carnatic . The tenor , the policy , and the consequences of this debt of 1767 , are , in the eyes of ministry , so excellent , that its merits are ...
... usury and oppression , to re- new their ravages throughout the devoted revenues of the Carnatic . The tenor , the policy , and the consequences of this debt of 1767 , are , in the eyes of ministry , so excellent , that its merits are ...
Page 144
... usury perhaps ever be- fore discovered , whatever might have been practised and concealed . But the same authority ( I mean the Nabob's ) 1 See further Consultations , 3rd February , 1778 . brings before you something if possible more ...
... usury perhaps ever be- fore discovered , whatever might have been practised and concealed . But the same authority ( I mean the Nabob's ) 1 See further Consultations , 3rd February , 1778 . brings before you something if possible more ...
Page 145
... usury engenders new usury ; mutiny , suspended in one quarter , starts up in an- other ; until all the revenues , and all the establishments , are entangled into one inextricable knot of confusion , from which they are only disengaged ...
... usury engenders new usury ; mutiny , suspended in one quarter , starts up in an- other ; until all the revenues , and all the establishments , are entangled into one inextricable knot of confusion , from which they are only disengaged ...
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