 Let no man hereafter talk of the decaying energies of Nature. All the acts and monuments in the records of peculation, the consolidated corruption of ages, the patterns of exemplary plunder in the heroic times of Roman iniquity, never equalled the gigantic...  Orators of England - Page 202edited by - 1900Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1865 - 604 pages
...grafted on this meliorated stock a perpetual annuity of six per cent, to take place from the year 1781. Let no man hereafter talk of the decaying energies...this single act. Never did Nero, in all the insolent on him [the Nabob of Arcot] to furnish the Company with what is absolutely necessary to assemble an... | |
 | Burke - 1867 - 564 pages
...grafted on this ameliorated stock a perpetual annuity of 6 per cent., to take place from the year 1781. Let no man hereafter talk of the decaying energies...insolent prodigality of despotism, deal out to his praetorian guards a donation fit to be named with the largess showered down by the bounty of our chancellor... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1869 - 572 pages
...grafted on this meliorated stock a perpetual annuity of six per cent, to take place from the year 1781. Let no man hereafter talk of the decaying energies...this single act. Never did Nero, in all the insolent on him [the Nabob of ArcotJ to furnish the Company with what is absolutely necessary to assemble an... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...grafted on this meliorated stock a perpetual annuity of six per cent., to take place from the year 1731. Let no man hereafter talk of the decaying energies of nature. All the acts and monuments in the rcc. ords of peculation ; the consolidated corruption of ages, the patterns of exemplary plunder in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1887 - 590 pages
...grafted on this ameliorated stock a perpetual annuity of 6 per cent., to take place from the year 1781. Let no man hereafter talk of the decaying energies...the insolent prodigality of despotism, deal out to Ms praetorian guards a donation fit to be named with the largess showered down by the bounty of our... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1897 - 232 pages
...and cruel beyond description, — as Burke puts the case, unequalled by " all the acts and monuments of peculation, the consolidated corruption of ages,...exemplary plunder in the heroic times of Roman iniquity." l Burke knew what he was talking about, knew better than any man in England, for he had been a member... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1897 - 248 pages
...and cruel beyond description, — as Burke puts the case, unequalled by " all the acts and monuments of peculation, the consolidated corruption of ages,...exemplary plunder in the heroic times of Roman iniquity." * Burke knew what he was talking about, knew better than any man in England, for he had been a member... | |
 | HAMMOND LAMONT - 1897 - 236 pages
...and cruel beyond description, — as Burke puts the case, unequalled by "all the acts and monuments of peculation, the consolidated corruption of ages,...of exemplary plunder in the heroic times of Roman iniquity."1 Burke knew what he was talking about, knew better than any man in England, for he had been... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1897 - 238 pages
...and cruel beyond description, — as Burke puts the case, unequalled by " all the acts and monuments of peculation, the consolidated corruption of ages,...of exemplary plunder in the heroic times of Roman iniquky." l Burke knew what he was talking about, knew better than any man in England, for he had been... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - Imperialism - 1899 - 841 pages
...the stream of justice only a century ago. In his speech on the Nabob of Arcot's debts, Burke said: "Let no man hereafter talk of the decaying energies...peculation; the consolidated corruption of ages; the pattern of exemplary plunder in the heroic times of Roman iniquity, never equalled the gigantic corruption... | |
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