The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 8Henry G. Bohn, 1857 - Great Britain |
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... appears that he held an incredible quantity of pri- vate correspondence through the various residents , through Mr. Graham , Mr. Fowke , Mr. Markham , Mr. Benn , concern- ing the affairs of that country . Did he ever , upon this al ...
... appears that he held an incredible quantity of pri- vate correspondence through the various residents , through Mr. Graham , Mr. Fowke , Mr. Markham , Mr. Benn , concern- ing the affairs of that country . Did he ever , upon this al ...
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... appears by the minutes on your lord- ships ' table , was at that time a bankrupt . He was in debt to the Company tenfold more than he could pay , and all his revenues were sequestered for that debt . He was a person of the last degree ...
... appears by the minutes on your lord- ships ' table , was at that time a bankrupt . He was in debt to the Company tenfold more than he could pay , and all his revenues were sequestered for that debt . He was a person of the last degree ...
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... appears . Your lordships will fur- ther remark , that Mr. Hastings refused the £ 200,000 at a time when the exigencies of the Company were so pressing , that he was obliged to rob , pilfer , and steal upon every side ; at a time when he ...
... appears . Your lordships will fur- ther remark , that Mr. Hastings refused the £ 200,000 at a time when the exigencies of the Company were so pressing , that he was obliged to rob , pilfer , and steal upon every side ; at a time when he ...
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... appears , then , that neither Cheit Sing nor the resident at Benares ( who ought to have been in the secret , if upon such an occasion secrecy is allowable ) ever knew what the terms were . The Rajah was in the dark ; he was left to ...
... appears , then , that neither Cheit Sing nor the resident at Benares ( who ought to have been in the secret , if upon such an occasion secrecy is allowable ) ever knew what the terms were . The Rajah was in the dark ; he was left to ...
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... appears , A FVNA ! " onversion tale istings : and I not wi B 2005 Opener er ivious to or å hørt tonterrible , mitenous and ab- Was * enter Des 1r . tour come bin Wa . his mitermann WUS -- Does informan woon are not name , upon d ...
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Page 293 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her/ What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have...
Page 79 - Sir, the Nabob having determined to inflict corporal punishment upon the prisoners under your guard, this is to desire that his officers, when they shall come, may have free access to the prisoners, and be permitted to do with them as they shall see proper.
Page 290 - I do not think the congress have any wish to persecute General Burgoyne. I never heard till I received your letter that they had recalled him. If they have made such a resolution, it must be, I suppose, a conditional one ; — to take place in case their offer of exchanging him for Mr. Laurens should not be accepted — a resolution intended to enforce that offer.
Page 290 - I do not think the Congress have any wish to persecute General Burgoyne. I never heard, till I received your letter, that they had recalled him ; if they have made such a resolution, it must be, I suppose, a conditional one, to take place in case their offer of exchanging him for Mr. Laurens should not be accepted ; a resolution intended merely to enforce that offer.
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Page 293 - I tell you again, — that the recollection of the manner in which I saw the queen of France, in the year 1774, and the contrast between that brilliancy, splendour, and beauty, with the prostrate homage of a nation to her, — and the abominable scene of 1789, which I was describing, — did draw tears from me and wetted my paper. These tears came again into my eyes, almost as often as I looked at the description ; — they may again.
Page 285 - ... rather against that practice, and have given several reasons for your judgment, which deserve to be very well considered. In order to know how we ought to plough, we ought to know what end it is we propose to ourselves in that operation. The first and instrumental end is to divide the soil ; the last and ultimate end, so far as regards the plants, is to facilitate the pushing of the blade upwards, and the shooting of the roots in all the inferior directions. There is further proposed a more ready...
Page 231 - For now the surgeon must be paid, To whom those perquisites are gone In Christian justice due to John. When food and raiment now grew scarce, Fate put a period to the farce, And with exact poetic justice; For John is landlord, Phyllis hostess: They keep, at Staines, the Old Blue Boar, Are cat and dog, and rogue and whore.
Page 37 - Sekunderpoor, beginning about a coss before he reached the village, an old fort of that name, appeared to a little more advantage; but even here the crops seem very scanty, and the ground more than half fallow.
Page 135 - He began with urging as apologies, that whilst he was not certain of the extent of our demands upon him, he had no real interest in being economical in his expenses; and that while we interfered in the internal management of his affairs, his own authority and that of his Ministers, were despised by his own subjects.