Annual Register, Band 27Edmund Burke 1787 |
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... produced , were not the leaft difficult or arduous parts of our task . In treating this fubject , we were pledged , and indeed neceffarily bound , to take a retrospective view of the proceedings in parliament relative to the Company ...
... produced , were not the leaft difficult or arduous parts of our task . In treating this fubject , we were pledged , and indeed neceffarily bound , to take a retrospective view of the proceedings in parliament relative to the Company ...
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... produce deftined to public purpofes . Obfervations and ftrictures of foreigners on fome of these tranfactions . WH HILE the four great mari- time powers of Europe were exhaufting their strength and facri- ficing their fubjects in that ...
... produce deftined to public purpofes . Obfervations and ftrictures of foreigners on fome of these tranfactions . WH HILE the four great mari- time powers of Europe were exhaufting their strength and facri- ficing their fubjects in that ...
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... produced : nor were the terrors of punishment , the dangers of which were multipli- ed by the great rewards held out for the discovery of offenders , fufficient to prevent the bittereft libels upon the emperor from being circulated even ...
... produced : nor were the terrors of punishment , the dangers of which were multipli- ed by the great rewards held out for the discovery of offenders , fufficient to prevent the bittereft libels upon the emperor from being circulated even ...
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... produced it were not much confi- dered ; and it seemed to be for gotten , that as the cause was tranfi- tory , the effect was not very likely to be permanent . It was little to be fuppofed , that fo novel and pleafing a ftate of things ...
... produced it were not much confi- dered ; and it seemed to be for gotten , that as the cause was tranfi- tory , the effect was not very likely to be permanent . It was little to be fuppofed , that fo novel and pleafing a ftate of things ...
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... produce their full effect , fhould have includ- et the whole military and naval fyf- tem of that empire ; the Turks hav- ing , partly through pride and bi- gotry , partly through native or habitual indolence , and ftill more than ali ...
... produce their full effect , fhould have includ- et the whole military and naval fyf- tem of that empire ; the Turks hav- ing , partly through pride and bi- gotry , partly through native or habitual indolence , and ftill more than ali ...
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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.