Annual Register, Band 27Edmund Burke 1787 |
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... opinion had for fome time prevailed with feveral perfons in England , that means might have been fuccefsfully used for renewing the ancient ties of friendship with the house of Auftria , and for draw- ing this prince into fuch a fyfte ...
... opinion had for fome time prevailed with feveral perfons in England , that means might have been fuccefsfully used for renewing the ancient ties of friendship with the house of Auftria , and for draw- ing this prince into fuch a fyfte ...
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... opinion . The late calamity was little cal- culated to encourage the ftate to undertake , or to enable it to main- tain , a war ; at the fame time that the causes for war were multiplying , and its appearances , on more fides than one ...
... opinion . The late calamity was little cal- culated to encourage the ftate to undertake , or to enable it to main- tain , a war ; at the fame time that the causes for war were multiplying , and its appearances , on more fides than one ...
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... opinion . It was accordingly determined to leave the affairs of the Crimea to take their own course ; to disavow any paft interference of government in that business ; and to attribute to the zeal of individuals for their re- ligion ...
... opinion . It was accordingly determined to leave the affairs of the Crimea to take their own course ; to disavow any paft interference of government in that business ; and to attribute to the zeal of individuals for their re- ligion ...
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... opinion prevailing in the country , that the Raja's government would not be of long continuance , and that ano- ther revolution was approaching . ' On this occafion Mr. Dundas de- fcribed the country of Tanjore to be the garden of India ...
... opinion prevailing in the country , that the Raja's government would not be of long continuance , and that ano- ther revolution was approaching . ' On this occafion Mr. Dundas de- fcribed the country of Tanjore to be the garden of India ...
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... opinion or yote he fhall give thereon . " It further provides for a speedy decifion upon all differences or doubts which may arise amongst the members of their government in India ; and directs , that in cafe fuch a decifion fhall not ...
... opinion or yote he fhall give thereon . " It further provides for a speedy decifion upon all differences or doubts which may arise amongst the members of their government in India ; and directs , that in cafe fuch a decifion fhall not ...
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Seite 186 - But on this grand point of the restoration of the country, there is not one syllable to be found in the correspondence of our ministers, from the...
Seite 15 - In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing: for he could reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment. Exulting in his intellectual...
Seite 56 - because they had acted in a manner repugnant to the honour and policy of this nation, and thereby brought great calamities on India, and enormous expenses on the East India company*" Here was no attempt on the charter.
Seite 16 - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy.
Seite 183 - It is therefore not from treasuries and mines, but from the food of your unpaid armies, from the blood withheld from the veins, and whipt out of the backs of the most miserable of men, that we are to pamper extortion, usury, and peculation, under the false names of debtors and creditors of state.
Seite 186 - For eighteen months without intermission this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One...
Seite 115 - If a white man in travelling through our country, enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I treat you; we dry him if he is wet, we warm him if he is cold, and give him meat and drink, that he may allay his...
Seite 115 - This made it clear to me that my suspicion was right, and that whatever they pretended of meeting to learn good things, the real purpose was to consult how to cheat Indians in the price of beaver.
Seite 284 - The Principles of Government, in a Dialogue between a Gentleman and a farmer.