The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3J. C. Nimmo, 1887 - Great Britain |
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Page 48
... sort of inquiry into its authen- ticity , without a single step taken to settle even the amount of the demand , -without an attempt so much as to ascertain the real persons claiming a sum which rises in the accounts from one million ...
... sort of inquiry into its authen- ticity , without a single step taken to settle even the amount of the demand , -without an attempt so much as to ascertain the real persons claiming a sum which rises in the accounts from one million ...
Page 54
... sort of provision whatever has been made . It is rejected as an outcast , whilst the whole undissi- pated attention of the minister has been employed for the discharge of claims entitled to his favor by the merits we have seen . I have ...
... sort of provision whatever has been made . It is rejected as an outcast , whilst the whole undissi- pated attention of the minister has been employed for the discharge of claims entitled to his favor by the merits we have seen . I have ...
Page 56
... sort of floating debt of about four or five hundred thousand pounds more ready to be added , as occasion should require . In short , when you pressed this sensitive - plant , it always contracted its dimensions . When the rude . hand of ...
... sort of floating debt of about four or five hundred thousand pounds more ready to be added , as occasion should require . In short , when you pressed this sensitive - plant , it always contracted its dimensions . When the rude . hand of ...
Page 57
... sort of postscript , by way of an additional remark , ( not in the body of the obligation , ) the debt represented at 1,400,000 % .: but when I computed the sums to be paid for interest by instalments in another paper , I found they ...
... sort of postscript , by way of an additional remark , ( not in the body of the obligation , ) the debt represented at 1,400,000 % .: but when I computed the sums to be paid for interest by instalments in another paper , I found they ...
Page 62
... sort of amicable office . But the cabinet council of English creditors would not suffer their Nabob of Arcot to sign the treaty , nor even to give to a prince at least his equal the ordinary titles of respect and courtesy . * From that ...
... sort of amicable office . But the cabinet council of English creditors would not suffer their Nabob of Arcot to sign the treaty , nor even to give to a prince at least his equal the ordinary titles of respect and courtesy . * From that ...
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