The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3J. C. Nimmo, 1887 - Great Britain |
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... payments in ready money , ( of which , from the nature of the thing , the direct proof is very difficult , ) debts have at several periods been acknowl- edged to those gentlemen , to an immense amount , that is , to some millions of ...
... payments in ready money , ( of which , from the nature of the thing , the direct proof is very difficult , ) debts have at several periods been acknowl- edged to those gentlemen , to an immense amount , that is , to some millions of ...
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... 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 goods , and to avoid instant insol- vency , at that very moment , that their servants should ...
... 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 goods , and to avoid instant insol- vency , at that very moment , that their servants should ...
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... payment . But with the positive injunctions of the act before us to exam- ine into their nature and origin , we are indispensably bound to direct such an inquiry to be instituted . " They then order the President and Council of Madras ...
... payment . But with the positive injunctions of the act before us to exam- ine into their nature and origin , we are indispensably bound to direct such an inquiry to be instituted . " They then order the President and Council of Madras ...
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... pay in present expectation , whilst the effect is at a distance , and may be the concern of other times and other men . On these principles , he chooses to suppose ( for he does not pretend more than to sup- pose ) a naked possibility ...
... pay in present expectation , whilst the effect is at a distance , and may be the concern of other times and other men . On these principles , he chooses to suppose ( for he does not pretend more than to sup- pose ) a naked possibility ...
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... pay off their protec- tion to great crimes and great criminals by being in- exorable to the paltry frailties of little men ; and these modern flagellants are sure , with a rigid fidelity , to whip their own enormities on the vicarious ...
... pay off their protec- tion to great crimes and great criminals by being in- exorable to the paltry frailties of little men ; and these modern flagellants are sure , with a rigid fidelity , to whip their own enormities on the vicarious ...
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