The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Bell & Daldy, 1872 - Great Britain |
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... council , more or fewer , according to the discretion of the Company ; among those , parliament ( probably on account of the largeness of the territorial acquisitions , rather than the conveniency of the situation ) chose Bengal , for ...
... council , more or fewer , according to the discretion of the Company ; among those , parliament ( probably on account of the largeness of the territorial acquisitions , rather than the conveniency of the situation ) chose Bengal , for ...
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... council therefore immediately gave constructions to their ill - defined 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 ...
... council therefore immediately gave constructions to their ill - defined 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 ...
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... council nominated in the act was Council - gene- composed of two totally discordant elements , which soon distinguished themselves into perma- nent parties . One of the principal instructions , which the three members of the council ...
... council nominated in the act was Council - gene- composed of two totally discordant elements , which soon distinguished themselves into perma- nent parties . One of the principal instructions , which the three members of the council ...
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... council of that establishment , on which the reform was to operate . Thus those , who were liable to process as delinquents , were in effect set over the reformers ; and that did actually happen , which might be expected to happen from ...
... council of that establishment , on which the reform was to operate . Thus those , who were liable to process as delinquents , were in effect set over the reformers ; and that did actually happen , which might be expected to happen from ...
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... council had been reputed of so arduous a nature as to require even legis- lative interposition . They were called upon , by all possible care and impartiality , to justify parliament at least as fully in the restoration of their ...
... council had been reputed of so arduous a nature as to require even legis- lative interposition . They were called upon , by all possible care and impartiality , to justify parliament at least as fully in the restoration of their ...
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