The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Page 274
... common sense , and uninteresting barren truths which generate no con- clusion , are thrown in to augment unwieldy bulk ... House of Commons is swept into this grand reservoir of politics . As to the composition , it bears a striking and ...
... common sense , and uninteresting barren truths which generate no con- clusion , are thrown in to augment unwieldy bulk ... House of Commons is swept into this grand reservoir of politics . As to the composition , it bears a striking and ...
Page 304
... Parliament voted 650,000l . to- wards the discharge of the navy debt . This sum could not be applied solely to the ... House of Commons , in the following session , that the navy debt carrying interest was , on the 31st of December ...
... Parliament voted 650,000l . to- wards the discharge of the navy debt . This sum could not be applied solely to the ... House of Commons , in the following session , that the navy debt carrying interest was , on the 31st of December ...
Page 363
... House of Commons to com- pliment the crown with a sort of juridical declaration of a title to the Company's acquisitions in India ; which the crown on its part , with the best air in the world , was to bestow upon the public . Then it ...
... House of Commons to com- pliment the crown with a sort of juridical declaration of a title to the Company's acquisitions in India ; which the crown on its part , with the best air in the world , was to bestow upon the public . Then it ...
Page 365
... House of Commons , the offer , as it was natural , of 400,000l . was very well relished . But nothing could be more disgustful than the 80,000 . which the Company had divided amongst themselves . A violent tempest of public indignation ...
... House of Commons , the offer , as it was natural , of 400,000l . was very well relished . But nothing could be more disgustful than the 80,000 . which the Company had divided amongst themselves . A violent tempest of public indignation ...
Page 375
... House of Commons . Possibly we might be interrupted in the enjoyment of this pleasing spectacle , if a war should break out , and our constitutional fleet , loaded with members of Parliament , returning - officers , peti- tions , and ...
... House of Commons . Possibly we might be interrupted in the enjoyment of this pleasing spectacle , if a war should break out , and our constitutional fleet , loaded with members of Parliament , returning - officers , peti- tions , and ...
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