The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... India upwards of thirty years of that in- nate , inveterate , hereditary patience to endure . My lords , the powers , which Mr. Hastings is charged with having abused , are the powers delegated to him by the East - India Company . The ...
... India upwards of thirty years of that in- nate , inveterate , hereditary patience to endure . My lords , the powers , which Mr. Hastings is charged with having abused , are the powers delegated to him by the East - India Company . The ...
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... India Company , and all their servants , are authorized to act . As to those of the first description , it is from the British charters , that they derive the capacity , by which they are considered as a publick body , or at all capable ...
... India Company , and all their servants , are authorized to act . As to those of the first description , it is from the British charters , that they derive the capacity , by which they are considered as a publick body , or at all capable ...
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... India , an English cor- poration became an integral part of the Mogul empire . When Great Britain virtually assented to that grant of office , and afterwards took advantage of it , Great Britain guarantied the performance of all its ...
... India , an English cor- poration became an integral part of the Mogul empire . When Great Britain virtually assented to that grant of office , and afterwards took advantage of it , Great Britain guarantied the performance of all its ...
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... India Company . That company acquired these powers about the end of the reign of Charles the Se- cond ; and they were afterwards more fully , as well as more legally , given by parliament after the revolution . From this time , the East ...
... India Company . That company acquired these powers about the end of the reign of Charles the Se- cond ; and they were afterwards more fully , as well as more legally , given by parliament after the revolution . From this time , the East ...
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... India company , however , still preserves traces of its original mercantile character . The whole exteriour order of its political service is carried on upon a mercantile plan and mercantile principles . In fact , the East - India ...
... India company , however , still preserves traces of its original mercantile character . The whole exteriour order of its political service is carried on upon a mercantile plan and mercantile principles . In fact , the East - India ...
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