The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Bell & Daldy, 1872 - Great Britain |
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... causes , which , in their opinion , have produced the failure of the first ; that the defects of the original plan may be supplied ; its errors cor- rected ; and such useful regulations , as ... cause must be B 2 ON THE AFFAIRS OF INDIA . 3.
... causes , which , in their opinion , have produced the failure of the first ; that the defects of the original plan may be supplied ; its errors cor- rected ; and such useful regulations , as ... cause must be B 2 ON THE AFFAIRS OF INDIA . 3.
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Edmund Burke. of patronage in their appointment . The cause must be sought elsewhere . Powers and objects of act of 1773 , and the effects thereof . The act had in its view ( independently of several detached regulations ) five ...
Edmund Burke. of patronage in their appointment . The cause must be sought elsewhere . Powers and objects of act of 1773 , and the effects thereof . The act had in its view ( independently of several detached regulations ) five ...
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... cause of this fatal decline of the authority of the court of directors , no doubt whatsoever can remain of the fact itself , nor of the total failure of one of the great leading regulations of the act of 1773 . Supreme The third object ...
... cause of this fatal decline of the authority of the court of directors , no doubt whatsoever can remain of the fact itself , nor of the total failure of one of the great leading regulations of the act of 1773 . Supreme The third object ...
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... cause the strictest inquiry to be made into all oppressions and abuses , " among which the practice of receiving presents from the natives , at that time generally charged upon men in power , was prin- cipally aimed at . Presents to any ...
... cause the strictest inquiry to be made into all oppressions and abuses , " among which the practice of receiving presents from the natives , at that time generally charged upon men in power , was prin- cipally aimed at . Presents to any ...
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... causes of their ruin were in the height of their operation , both the Company and the natives were understood by the public as in circumstances the most assured , and most flourishing . Insomuch that , whenever the affairs of India were ...
... causes of their ruin were in the height of their operation , both the Company and the natives were understood by the public as in circumstances the most assured , and most flourishing . Insomuch that , whenever the affairs of India were ...
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