The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... England , in order to facilitate the vent of their goods , and to avoid instant insol- vency , at that very moment , that their servants should appear in so flourishing a condition , as , be- sides ten millions of other demands on their ...
... England , in order to facilitate the vent of their goods , and to avoid instant insol- vency , at that very moment , that their servants should appear in so flourishing a condition , as , be- sides ten millions of other demands on their ...
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... England . To go no farther than the case before us : you are just as competent to judge whether the sum of four millions sterling ought or ought not to be passed from the public treasury into a pri- vate pocket without any title except ...
... England . To go no farther than the case before us : you are just as competent to judge whether the sum of four millions sterling ought or ought not to be passed from the public treasury into a pri- vate pocket without any title except ...
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... England , ) are on the point of being converted into a mystery of state . You are going to have one half of the globe hid even from the common liberal curi- osity of an English gentleman . Here a grand revo- lution commences . Mark the ...
... England , ) are on the point of being converted into a mystery of state . You are going to have one half of the globe hid even from the common liberal curi- osity of an English gentleman . Here a grand revo- lution commences . Mark the ...
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... England , at four shillings in the pound ; a good deal more than double the whole annual dividend of the East India * A witness examined before the Committee of Secrecy says that eighteen per cent was the usual interest , but he had ...
... England , at four shillings in the pound ; a good deal more than double the whole annual dividend of the East India * A witness examined before the Committee of Secrecy says that eighteen per cent was the usual interest , but he had ...
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... for a strict in quiry , ( if not to justify them in a reprobation of those demands without any inquiry at all , ) that , when all England , Scotland , and Ireland had for years been 24 SPEECH ON THE NABOB OF ARCOT'S DEBTS .
... for a strict in quiry , ( if not to justify them in a reprobation of those demands without any inquiry at all , ) that , when all England , Scotland , and Ireland had for years been 24 SPEECH ON THE NABOB OF ARCOT'S DEBTS .
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