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Page 22
It is not from this district , or from that parish , not from this city , or the other
province , that relief is now applied for : exiled and undone princes , extensive
tribes , suffering nations , infinite descriptions of men , different in language , in
manners ...
It is not from this district , or from that parish , not from this city , or the other
province , that relief is now applied for : exiled and undone princes , extensive
tribes , suffering nations , infinite descriptions of men , different in language , in
manners ...
Page 44
This is not confined to their great council ; but this order ought to be observed , as
I conceive , and I see considerable traces of it in practice , in every provincial
council , whilst the provincial councils existed , and even down to the minutest ...
This is not confined to their great council ; but this order ought to be observed , as
I conceive , and I see considerable traces of it in practice , in every provincial
council , whilst the provincial councils existed , and even down to the minutest ...
Page 55
The author , Mr. Holwell , divides the country of Bengal into its different provinces
. He supposes what they then paid to the ... In enumerating these provinces , at
last he comes to the province of Burdwan . “ In truth ( says this author ) , it would ...
The author , Mr. Holwell , divides the country of Bengal into its different provinces
. He supposes what they then paid to the ... In enumerating these provinces , at
last he comes to the province of Burdwan . “ In truth ( says this author ) , it would ...
Page 63
... that through all these revolutions in government , and changes in power , an
Hindû polity , and the spirit of an Hindû government , did . more or less exist in
that province , with which he was concerned , until it was finally to be de- ! stroyed
by ...
... that through all these revolutions in government , and changes in power , an
Hindû polity , and the spirit of an Hindû government , did . more or less exist in
that province , with which he was concerned , until it was finally to be de- ! stroyed
by ...
Page 70
The then heir to that throne , escaping from the hands of those , who had held his
father prisoner , had put himself at the head of several chiefs , collected under the
standard of his house , and appeared in force on the frontiers of the provinces ...
The then heir to that throne , escaping from the hands of those , who had held his
father prisoner , had put himself at the head of several chiefs , collected under the
standard of his house , and appeared in force on the frontiers of the provinces ...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Wells and Lilly, 1827 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Nov 2008 |
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