The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 271
... we cannot at this time hope to make any treaty of peace which would not be ruinous and completely disgraceful . In such an anxious state of things , if dawnings of success serve to animate our diligence , they FOR ECONOMICAL REFORM . 271.
... we cannot at this time hope to make any treaty of peace which would not be ruinous and completely disgraceful . In such an anxious state of things , if dawnings of success serve to animate our diligence , they FOR ECONOMICAL REFORM . 271.
Page 273
... - quences . The noble lord in the blue ribbon , last year , treated all this with contempt . He never could conceive it VOL . II . 18 possible that the French minister of finance could go through FOR ECONOMICAL REFORM . 273.
... - quences . The noble lord in the blue ribbon , last year , treated all this with contempt . He never could conceive it VOL . II . 18 possible that the French minister of finance could go through FOR ECONOMICAL REFORM . 273.
Page 274
... reform , executed through every depart- ment of the revenue , creates an annual income of more than half a million , whilst it facilitates and simplifies all the functions of administration . The king's house hold — at the remotest ...
... reform , executed through every depart- ment of the revenue , creates an annual income of more than half a million , whilst it facilitates and simplifies all the functions of administration . The king's house hold — at the remotest ...
Page 275
... reform of the finances , joined to this reform of the court , gives to the public nine hundred thousand pounds a year , and upwards . The minister who does these things is a great man ; but the king who desires that they should be done ...
... reform of the finances , joined to this reform of the court , gives to the public nine hundred thousand pounds a year , and upwards . The minister who does these things is a great man ; but the king who desires that they should be done ...
Page 277
... the gross abuses in the expenditure of pub- lic money . " This has been treated by the noble lord in the blue ribbon as a wild , factious language . It happens , however , that the people , in their address to FOR ECONOMICAL REFORM . 277.
... the gross abuses in the expenditure of pub- lic money . " This has been treated by the noble lord in the blue ribbon as a wild , factious language . It happens , however , that the people , in their address to FOR ECONOMICAL REFORM . 277.
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