The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Bell & Daldy, 1872 - Great Britain |
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... authority over the servants abroad : 3dly , The establishment of a court of justice capable of protecting the natives from the oppressions of British sub- jects : 4thly , The establishment of a general council to be seated in Bengal ...
... authority over the servants abroad : 3dly , The establishment of a court of justice capable of protecting the natives from the oppressions of British sub- jects : 4thly , The establishment of a general council to be seated in Bengal ...
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... authority , rather than another . directors . The second object of the act was the court of Court of directors . Under the arrangement of the year 1773 , that court appeared to have its authority much strengthened . It was made less ...
... authority , rather than another . directors . The second object of the act was the court of Court of directors . Under the arrangement of the year 1773 , that court appeared to have its authority much strengthened . It was made less ...
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... authority of the court of directors , there is reason to apprehend , that on the whole it was somewhat degraded by the act , whose professed purpose was to exalt it ; and that the only effect of the parliamentary sanction to their ...
... authority of the court of directors , there is reason to apprehend , that on the whole it was somewhat degraded by the act , whose professed purpose was to exalt it ; and that the only effect of the parliamentary sanction to their ...
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... authority . This authority calling in the military arm ( by a most dangerous example ) overpowered , and for a while suspended , the functions of that court ; but at length those functions , which were suspended by the quarrel of the ...
... authority . This authority calling in the military arm ( by a most dangerous example ) overpowered , and for a while suspended , the functions of that court ; but at length those functions , which were suspended by the quarrel of the ...
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... authority , which rendered it perfectly despotic ; constructions , which if they were allowed , no action of theirs ought to be regarded as criminal . Armed as they were with an authority in itself so ample , and by abuse so capable of ...
... authority , which rendered it perfectly despotic ; constructions , which if they were allowed , no action of theirs ought to be regarded as criminal . Armed as they were with an authority in itself so ample , and by abuse so capable of ...
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