The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... sort of inquiry . ― It was not at all seemly , at a moment when the Company itself was so distressed as to require a sus- pension , by act of Parliament , of the payment of bills drawn on them from India , and also a direct tax upon ...
... sort of inquiry . ― It was not at all seemly , at a moment when the Company itself was so distressed as to require a sus- pension , by act of Parliament , of the payment of bills drawn on them from India , and also a direct tax upon ...
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... walls for an increase of their appoint- ments . From the marrowless bones of these skeleton * Appendix , No. 1 . VOL . III . 2 establishments , by the use of every sort of cutting SPEECH ON THE NABOB OF ARCOT'S DEBTS . 17.
... walls for an increase of their appoint- ments . From the marrowless bones of these skeleton * Appendix , No. 1 . VOL . III . 2 establishments , by the use of every sort of cutting SPEECH ON THE NABOB OF ARCOT'S DEBTS . 17.
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Edmund Burke. establishments , by the use of every sort of cutting and of every sort of fretting tool , he flatters himself that he may chip and rasp an empirical alimentary powder , to diet into some similitude of health and substance ...
Edmund Burke. establishments , by the use of every sort of cutting and of every sort of fretting tool , he flatters himself that he may chip and rasp an empirical alimentary powder , to diet into some similitude of health and substance ...
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... sort of trade sufficient to employ a peddler , could have , in a few years , ( as to some , even in a few months , ) amassed treasures equal to the revenues of a respect- able kingdom ? Was it not enough to put these gen- tlemen , in ...
... sort of trade sufficient to employ a peddler , could have , in a few years , ( as to some , even in a few months , ) amassed treasures equal to the revenues of a respect- able kingdom ? Was it not enough to put these gen- tlemen , in ...
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... sort of hardship to them , that they could not have justice at Madras , from the impossibility of their supporting their claims in the Mayor's Court ? Why ? Because , say they , the members of that court were themselves creditors , and ...
... sort of hardship to them , that they could not have justice at Madras , from the impossibility of their supporting their claims in the Mayor's Court ? Why ? Because , say they , the members of that court were themselves creditors , and ...
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