The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3J. C. Nimmo, 1887 - Great Britain |
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... tion to their recorded sentiments , their strong re- monstrance , and their declared sense of their duty , as well under their general trust and their oath as Directors , as under the express injunctions of an act of Parliament . The ...
... tion to their recorded sentiments , their strong re- monstrance , and their declared sense of their duty , as well under their general trust and their oath as Directors , as under the express injunctions of an act of Parliament . The ...
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... tion in office , for this sole and curious reason , that he had been in office , - had he argued the impossibility of his abusing his power on this sole principle , that - he had power to abuse , he would have 12 SPEECH ON THE NABOB OF ...
... tion in office , for this sole and curious reason , that he had been in office , - had he argued the impossibility of his abusing his power on this sole principle , that - he had power to abuse , he would have 12 SPEECH ON THE NABOB OF ...
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... tion ? It is nothing to him , whether the object on which he works under our eye be promising or not . If he does not obtain any public benefit , he may make regulations without end . Those are sure to pay in present expectation ...
... tion ? It is nothing to him , whether the object on which he works under our eye be promising or not . If he does not obtain any public benefit , he may make regulations without end . Those are sure to pay in present expectation ...
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... tion , sinking under the mountainous load of two hun- dred and thirty millions of debt . But whilst we look with pain at his desperate and laborious trifling , whilst we are apprehensive that he will break his back in stooping to pick ...
... tion , sinking under the mountainous load of two hun- dred and thirty millions of debt . But whilst we look with pain at his desperate and laborious trifling , whilst we are apprehensive that he will break his back in stooping to pick ...
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... tion when life is to be no more , that there is an eter- nal debt , a debt " still paying , still to owe , " which must be bound on the present generation in India , and entailed on their mortgaged posterity forever ? A debt of millions ...
... tion when life is to be no more , that there is an eter- nal debt , a debt " still paying , still to owe , " which must be bound on the present generation in India , and entailed on their mortgaged posterity forever ? A debt of millions ...
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