The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: In the House of Commons, and in Westminster-Hall, Volume 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 - Great Britain |
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... means of preventing the in- creasing frauds in the revenue : that we shall take into our most serious consideration such commercial regulations as the present situation may immediately require . " That , in our deliberations on the ...
... means of preventing the in- creasing frauds in the revenue : that we shall take into our most serious consideration such commercial regulations as the present situation may immediately require . " That , in our deliberations on the ...
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... means , an inquest would have taken cognizance of the case , and inquired into the causes of his death ; but the parliament of Great Britain had been put to a violent death , and no coroner had yet held an inquest on the body ! No ...
... means , an inquest would have taken cognizance of the case , and inquired into the causes of his death ; but the parliament of Great Britain had been put to a violent death , and no coroner had yet held an inquest on the body ! No ...
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... means had been contrived of late so to delude the people as to make them the very instruments of the degradation of that branch of the government , the destruction of which must necessarily be attended with the loss of their liberty ...
... means had been contrived of late so to delude the people as to make them the very instruments of the degradation of that branch of the government , the destruction of which must necessarily be attended with the loss of their liberty ...
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... means by which they might have put it most effectually out of their own power to derive any emo- lument or parliamentary support from their situation : and he himself had made it a point to shut his ears to every application that had ...
... means by which they might have put it most effectually out of their own power to derive any emo- lument or parliamentary support from their situation : and he himself had made it a point to shut his ears to every application that had ...
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... means of performing that task , they will exchange independence for protection , and will court a subservient existence through the favour of those ministers of state , or those secret advisers who ought themselves to stand in awe of ...
... means of performing that task , they will exchange independence for protection , and will court a subservient existence through the favour of those ministers of state , or those secret advisers who ought themselves to stand in awe of ...
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Page 360 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
Page 478 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 457 - That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished:
Page 70 - See on these ruby lips the trembling breath, These cheeks now fading at the blast of death ; Cold is that breast which warm'd the world before, And those love-darting eyes must roll no more.
Page 333 - ... 2. That it is the opinion of this committee, That it is the right and duty of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain now assembled, and lawfully, fully, and freely, representing all the estates of the people of this realm, to provide the means of supplying the defect of the personal exercise of the royal authority...
Page 130 - Does any of you think that England, so wasted, would, under such a nursing attendance, so rapidly and cheaply recover ? But he is meanly acquainted with either England or India, who does not know that England would a thousand times sooner resume population, fertility, and what ought to be the ultimate secretion from both, revenue, than such a country as the Carnatic. The Carnatic is not by the bounty of nature a fertile soil. The general size of its cattle is proof enough that it is much otherwise....
Page 129 - For eighteen months without intermission this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder AH and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see...
Page 91 - I think I can trace all the calamities of this country to the single source of our not having had steadily before our eyes a general, comprehensive, well-connected, and well-proportioned view of the whole of our dominions, and A just sense of their true bearings and relations.
Page 164 - For appointing Commissioners to inquire into the fees, gratuities, perquisites, and emoluments which are or lately have been received in the several public offices to be therein mentioned; to examine into any abuses which may exist in the same; and to report such observations as shall occur to them for the better concluding and managing the business transacted in the said offices.
Page 433 - French had shown themselves the ablest architects of ruin that had hitherto existed in the world. In that very short space of time they had completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures. They had done their business for us as rivals, in a way in which twenty Ramilies or Blenheims could never have done it.