The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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Page 74
... received a message from the prince , or his principal minister , informing him , that the Prince Royal , now the Mo- gul , had an intention ( as indeed he rationally might , suppos- ing , that we were as well disposed to him as we ...
... received a message from the prince , or his principal minister , informing him , that the Prince Royal , now the Mo- gul , had an intention ( as indeed he rationally might , suppos- ing , that we were as well disposed to him as we ...
Page 93
... received his money , but did him no service in return : others , more conscientious , refused to receive it : and in this battle of bribes he was vanquished . A deputa VOL . VII . 12 : tion was sent from Calcutta to the miserable nabob ...
... received his money , but did him no service in return : others , more conscientious , refused to receive it : and in this battle of bribes he was vanquished . A deputa VOL . VII . 12 : tion was sent from Calcutta to the miserable nabob ...
Page 123
... received their chiefs with distinction and respect , and their followers I honoured according to their degrees and their stations , and to the good among them I did good , and the evil I delivered over to their evil actions . " And ...
... received their chiefs with distinction and respect , and their followers I honoured according to their degrees and their stations , and to the good among them I did good , and the evil I delivered over to their evil actions . " And ...
Page 135
... received my punish- ment . " If , for any other reasons , they come and say , " We thank you Sir , for all your services : " To that I answer , yes ; and I would thank him for his services too , if I knew them . But I do not ; -perhaps ...
... received my punish- ment . " If , for any other reasons , they come and say , " We thank you Sir , for all your services : " To that I answer , yes ; and I would thank him for his services too , if I knew them . But I do not ; -perhaps ...
Page 144
... received , yet they forbid their servants , their governours , whatever appli- cation they might pretend to make of them , to receive , under any other name or pretence , more than a certain marked simple sum of money , and this not ...
... received , yet they forbid their servants , their governours , whatever appli- cation they might pretend to make of them , to receive , under any other name or pretence , more than a certain marked simple sum of money , and this not ...
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