The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... body of evidence which cannot be resisted , that very great sums have been by him distributed , through a long course of years , to some of the Company's servants . Besides these presumed payments in ready money , ( of which , from the ...
... body of evidence which cannot be resisted , that very great sums have been by him distributed , through a long course of years , to some of the Company's servants . Besides these presumed payments in ready money , ( of which , from the ...
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Edmund Burke. strong reason to suspect that the body of these debts is wholly fictitious , and was never created by money bona fide lent . But even on a supposition that this vast sum was really advanced , it was impossible that the very ...
Edmund Burke. strong reason to suspect that the body of these debts is wholly fictitious , and was never created by money bona fide lent . But even on a supposition that this vast sum was really advanced , it was impossible that the very ...
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... body suspected that much , comparatively speaking , would be so found , ) it might be provided for , - in due subordination , however , to the ease of the sub- ject and the service of the state . These were the alleged grounds for an ...
... body suspected that much , comparatively speaking , would be so found , ) it might be provided for , - in due subordination , however , to the ease of the sub- ject and the service of the state . These were the alleged grounds for an ...
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... body , at their own pleasure , to supersede all the provisions the legislature had made , and to defeat the whole pur- pose , end , and object of the law ? This cannot be supposed even of an act of Parliament conceived by the ministers ...
... body , at their own pleasure , to supersede all the provisions the legislature had made , and to defeat the whole pur- pose , end , and object of the law ? This cannot be supposed even of an act of Parliament conceived by the ministers ...
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... body of your revenue , your most numerous armies , your most important commerce , the richest sources of your public credit , ( contrary to every idea of the known , settled policy of England , ) are on the point of being converted into ...
... body of your revenue , your most numerous armies , your most important commerce , the richest sources of your public credit , ( contrary to every idea of the known , settled policy of England , ) are on the point of being converted into ...
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