The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... servants of the East India Company , a variety of designs for the further extension of his territories . Some years af- ter , he carried his views to certain objects of interior arrangement , of a very pernicious nature . None of these ...
... servants of the East India Company , a variety of designs for the further extension of his territories . Some years af- ter , he carried his views to certain objects of interior arrangement , of a very pernicious nature . None of these ...
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... servants , from the highest to the lowest , -creating , out of the ruins of the country , brilliant fortunes for those who will , and entirely destroying those who will not , be subservient to his purposes . An opinion prevailed ...
... servants , from the highest to the lowest , -creating , out of the ruins of the country , brilliant fortunes for those who will , and entirely destroying those who will not , be subservient to his purposes . An opinion prevailed ...
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... servants should appear in so flourishing a condition , as , be- sides ten millions of other demands on their masters , to be entitled to claim a debt of three or four mil- lions more from the territorial revenue of one of their ...
... servants should appear in so flourishing a condition , as , be- sides ten millions of other demands on their masters , to be entitled to claim a debt of three or four mil- lions more from the territorial revenue of one of their ...
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... servants , respecting the debt , yet they had never been able to trace the origin thereof , or to obtain any satisfactory information on the subject . " —— The Court of Directors , after stating the circum- stances under which the debts ...
... servants , respecting the debt , yet they had never been able to trace the origin thereof , or to obtain any satisfactory information on the subject . " —— The Court of Directors , after stating the circum- stances under which the debts ...
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... servants , ser- vants suspected of corruption and convicted of disobe- dience , the Directors of the East India Company were ordered to set their hands , asserting it to arise from their own conviction and opinion , in flat contradic ...
... servants , ser- vants suspected of corruption and convicted of disobe- dience , the Directors of the East India Company were ordered to set their hands , asserting it to arise from their own conviction and opinion , in flat contradic ...
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