The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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Page 60
... king of Tanjore , and plundered the country to * Report of the Select Committee , Madras Consultations , January 7 , 1771. See also papers published by the order of the Court of Di- rectors in 1776 ; and Lord Macartney's correspondence ...
... king of Tanjore , and plundered the country to * Report of the Select Committee , Madras Consultations , January 7 , 1771. See also papers published by the order of the Court of Di- rectors in 1776 ; and Lord Macartney's correspondence ...
Page 68
... kings , who were the fathers of their people , - testators to a posterity which they embraced as their own . These are the grand sepulchres built by ambition , - but by the ambition of an insatiable benevolence , which , not contented ...
... kings , who were the fathers of their people , - testators to a posterity which they embraced as their own . These are the grand sepulchres built by ambition , - but by the ambition of an insatiable benevolence , which , not contented ...
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... king of Tanjore ( which had not been assigned ) at four hundred and fifty . On this Lord Macartney grounds his calculations , and on this they choose to ground theirs . It was on this calcula- tion that the ministry , in direct ...
... king of Tanjore ( which had not been assigned ) at four hundred and fifty . On this Lord Macartney grounds his calculations , and on this they choose to ground theirs . It was on this calcula- tion that the ministry , in direct ...
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... king- dom not obtained by our arms ; robbed , not protected , by our power ; a grant for which no equivalent was ever given , or pretended to be given . The right honorable gentleman , however , bears witness in his reports to the ...
... king- dom not obtained by our arms ; robbed , not protected , by our power ; a grant for which no equivalent was ever given , or pretended to be given . The right honorable gentleman , however , bears witness in his reports to the ...
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... king- dom . But to secure his services against all risk , he was brought in for a ministerial borough . On his part , he was not wanting in zeal for the common cause . His advertisements show his motives , and the merits upon which he ...
... king- dom . But to secure his services against all risk , he was brought in for a ministerial borough . On his part , he was not wanting in zeal for the common cause . His advertisements show his motives , and the merits upon which he ...
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