The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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Page 97
... gave them all they possessed , the company would hear no more of it . They sent him out to reform - whether they chose well or ill , does not signify . I think , upon the whole , they chose well ; because his name and authority could do ...
... gave them all they possessed , the company would hear no more of it . They sent him out to reform - whether they chose well or ill , does not signify . I think , upon the whole , they chose well ; because his name and authority could do ...
Page 98
... gave to the vizeret . Thus , our alliances were cemented ; our enemies were reconciled ; all Asia was conciliated by our settlement with the king . To that unhappy fugitive king , driven from place to place , the sport of fortune , now ...
... gave to the vizeret . Thus , our alliances were cemented ; our enemies were reconciled ; all Asia was conciliated by our settlement with the king . To that unhappy fugitive king , driven from place to place , the sport of fortune , now ...
Page 99
... gave to the settlement of Bengal a fixed constitutional form , with a legal title acknowledged and recognized now for the first time by all the natural powers of the country , because it arose from the charter of the undoubted sovereign ...
... gave to the settlement of Bengal a fixed constitutional form , with a legal title acknowledged and recognized now for the first time by all the natural powers of the country , because it arose from the charter of the undoubted sovereign ...
Page 110
... gave it , with which no human authority can dispense ; neither he , that exercises it , nor even those , who are subject to it : and , if they were mad enough to make an express compact , that should release their magistrate from his ...
... gave it , with which no human authority can dispense ; neither he , that exercises it , nor even those , who are subject to it : and , if they were mad enough to make an express compact , that should release their magistrate from his ...
Page 121
... gave encouragement to my ameers , and to my soldiers , and with money and with jewels I made them glad of heart ; and I permitted them to come into the ban- quet ; and in the field of blood they hazarded their lives . And I withheld not ...
... gave encouragement to my ameers , and to my soldiers , and with money and with jewels I made them glad of heart ; and I permitted them to come into the ban- quet ; and in the field of blood they hazarded their lives . And I withheld not ...
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