The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 8Bell & Daldy, 1870 - Great Britain |
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Page 17
... measure accompanying it . We have established this , and the whole human race cannot shake it . He went up the country through malice to revenge his own private wrongs , not those of the Company . He fixed £ 500,000 as a mulct for an ...
... measure accompanying it . We have established this , and the whole human race cannot shake it . He went up the country through malice to revenge his own private wrongs , not those of the Company . He fixed £ 500,000 as a mulct for an ...
Page 19
... measure of the fine , not from the nature and quality of your offence , not from the law upon the subject or from your ability to pay , but the amount of a fine you paid some years ago for an estate shall be the measure of your ...
... measure of the fine , not from the nature and quality of your offence , not from the law upon the subject or from your ability to pay , but the amount of a fine you paid some years ago for an estate shall be the measure of your ...
Page 33
... measures , he shall receive them . " Now here is a compact of iniquity between these two duumvirs . They each give to the other the full , complete , and perfect powers of the government , and , in order to secure themselves against any ...
... measures , he shall receive them . " Now here is a compact of iniquity between these two duumvirs . They each give to the other the full , complete , and perfect powers of the government , and , in order to secure themselves against any ...
Page 47
... measures were therefore taken to obtain possession of this place , soon after the flight of its unfortunate proprietor . And what did he find in it ? A great and powerful garrison ? No , my lords ; he found in it the wives and family of ...
... measures were therefore taken to obtain possession of this place , soon after the flight of its unfortunate proprietor . And what did he find in it ? A great and powerful garrison ? No , my lords ; he found in it the wives and family of ...
Page 59
... measures as he might judge to be most essential to the interest and honour of his employers . One would have imagined he would have done this , in order that the council and the court of directors might have a clear view of the whole ...
... measures as he might judge to be most essential to the interest and honour of his employers . One would have imagined he would have done this , in order that the council and the court of directors might have a clear view of the whole ...
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