The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 8Bell & Daldy, 1870 - Great Britain |
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... Company's affairs are in distress , even when that distress pro- ceeds from his own prodigality , mismanagement , or corruption , he has a right to take for the Company's benefit privately in his own name , with the future application ...
... Company's affairs are in distress , even when that distress pro- ceeds from his own prodigality , mismanagement , or corruption , he has a right to take for the Company's benefit privately in his own name , with the future application ...
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... Company for its object , at least to be merely the effect of pernicious advice or misguided folly , without any formal design of openly resisting our authority or disclaiming our sovereignty , I looked upon a considerable fine as suffi ...
... Company for its object , at least to be merely the effect of pernicious advice or misguided folly , without any formal design of openly resisting our authority or disclaiming our sovereignty , I looked upon a considerable fine as suffi ...
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... Company's servants of his intentions of fining the Rajah , but that some hostile project against him had been formed ... Company tenfold more than he could pay , and all his revenues were sequestered for that debt . He was a person of ...
... Company's servants of his intentions of fining the Rajah , but that some hostile project against him had been formed ... Company tenfold more than he could pay , and all his revenues were sequestered for that debt . He was a person of ...
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... Company , the ground of his defence is ab- solutely false , for it is notorious that at the time referred to the ... Company's sove- reignty over Benares to the Nabob of Oude , it was but in terrorem ; and no subsequent act of mine ...
... Company , the ground of his defence is ab- solutely false , for it is notorious that at the time referred to the ... Company's sove- reignty over Benares to the Nabob of Oude , it was but in terrorem ; and no subsequent act of mine ...
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... Company , guaranteed , maintained , and protected in his country by the Company's arms , had no occasion for forts ; had no right to them , and could hold them for no other than suspected and rebellious purposes . None of the Company's ...
... Company , guaranteed , maintained , and protected in his country by the Company's arms , had no occasion for forts ; had no right to them , and could hold them for no other than suspected and rebellious purposes . None of the Company's ...
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