The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 - Great Britain |
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Page ix
... charter - govern- ment over great kingdoms . Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument , either of state or beneficence , behind him . Were this country to be driven out of India this day , nothing would ...
... charter - govern- ment over great kingdoms . Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument , either of state or beneficence , behind him . Were this country to be driven out of India this day , nothing would ...
Page x
... charter should prove no sanction to such tyranny and oppression . ' Charters are kept , when their purposes are maintained ; they are violated when the privilege is supported against its end and its object . ' The speech closes with a ...
... charter should prove no sanction to such tyranny and oppression . ' Charters are kept , when their purposes are maintained ; they are violated when the privilege is supported against its end and its object . ' The speech closes with a ...
Page 58
... charters of the present descrip- tion . But it is not difficult to discover what end that ambiguous mode of expression ... charter at all could be set up against it . If these natural rights are further affirmed and declared by express ...
... charters of the present descrip- tion . But it is not difficult to discover what end that ambiguous mode of expression ... charter at all could be set up against it . If these natural rights are further affirmed and declared by express ...
Page 59
... charter . Of this kind is the charter of the East India Company . Magna Charta is a charter , to restrain power and to destroy monopoly . The East India charter is a charter to establish monopoly and to create power . Political power ...
... charter . Of this kind is the charter of the East India Company . Magna Charta is a charter , to restrain power and to destroy monopoly . The East India charter is a charter to establish monopoly and to create power . Political power ...
Page 60
... charter , and by acts of parlia- ment , ( in my opinion ) without a shadow of controversy . Those who carry the rights and claims of the company the furthest do not contend for more than this ; and all this I freely grant . But granting ...
... charter , and by acts of parlia- ment , ( in my opinion ) without a shadow of controversy . Those who carry the rights and claims of the company the furthest do not contend for more than this ; and all this I freely grant . But granting ...
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