The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 12Little, Brown,, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... whole peers of Great Britain , by confiscating the whole of the estates at once , as a government resource , with- out the charge or pretence of any crime , I say that such an act would be oppressive , cruel , and wicked in the highest ...
... whole peers of Great Britain , by confiscating the whole of the estates at once , as a government resource , with- out the charge or pretence of any crime , I say that such an act would be oppressive , cruel , and wicked in the highest ...
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... whole interest in the land con- sists in the jaghires : for very few indeed of them are zemindars anywhere , in some of the provinces none of them are so ; the whole of them are jaghiredars . We have heard , my Lords , much discussion ...
... whole interest in the land con- sists in the jaghires : for very few indeed of them are zemindars anywhere , in some of the provinces none of them are so ; the whole of them are jaghiredars . We have heard , my Lords , much discussion ...
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... whole transaction , my Lords , was an act of gross violence , ushered in by a gross fraud . It ap- pears that no pensions were ever intended to be paid ; and this you will naturally guess would be the event , when such a strange ...
... whole transaction , my Lords , was an act of gross violence , ushered in by a gross fraud . It ap- pears that no pensions were ever intended to be paid ; and this you will naturally guess would be the event , when such a strange ...
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... whole , as you will find in the paper to which we refer you . By this con- fiscation , therefore , the Nabob was authorized to re- sume grants of which he had not been the grantor . [ Mr. Burke here read the list of the jaghires . ] Now ...
... whole , as you will find in the paper to which we refer you . By this con- fiscation , therefore , the Nabob was authorized to re- sume grants of which he had not been the grantor . [ Mr. Burke here read the list of the jaghires . ] Now ...
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... whole country to the usurers of Benares , for the purpose of raising money upon it : giving it up to those bloodsuckers , dispossessed of that no- bility , whose interest , whose duty , whose feelings , and whose habits made them the ...
... whole country to the usurers of Benares , for the purpose of raising money upon it : giving it up to those bloodsuckers , dispossessed of that no- bility , whose interest , whose duty , whose feelings , and whose habits made them the ...
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