The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 6John West and O.C. Greenleaf, 1813 |
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... influence , your committee hold it expedient to collect into distinct points of view the cir- cumstances by which that government appears to them to be most essentially disordered ; and to explain fully the principles of policy , and ...
... influence , your committee hold it expedient to collect into distinct points of view the cir- cumstances by which that government appears to them to be most essentially disordered ; and to explain fully the principles of policy , and ...
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... influence in the approbation or rejec- tion of the party presented to the ministers of the crown . These papers should be laid before the commissioners of the treasury , and one of the secretaries of state , and en- tered in books to be ...
... influence in the approbation or rejec- tion of the party presented to the ministers of the crown . These papers should be laid before the commissioners of the treasury , and one of the secretaries of state , and en- tered in books to be ...
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... influence and favour , which appear in the subordinates of Bengal . This previous designation to a great and arduous trust , ( the greatest that can be reposed in subjects ) when made out of any regular course of succession , marks that ...
... influence and favour , which appear in the subordinates of Bengal . This previous designation to a great and arduous trust , ( the greatest that can be reposed in subjects ) when made out of any regular course of succession , marks that ...
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... influence over the general policy and the particular measures of the company's government . Your committee apprehend that the present state , nature , and tendency of 36 REPORT OF A COMMITTEE -Connexion of Great Britain with India,
... influence over the general policy and the particular measures of the company's government . Your committee apprehend that the present state , nature , and tendency of 36 REPORT OF A COMMITTEE -Connexion of Great Britain with India,
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... influence , was invented ; a species of trade ( if such it may be called ) by which it is absolutely impossible that India should not be radically and irretrievably ruined , although our possessions there were to be ordered and governed ...
... influence , was invented ; a species of trade ( if such it may be called ) by which it is absolutely impossible that India should not be radically and irretrievably ruined , although our possessions there were to be ordered and governed ...
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Page 316 - 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 336 - I hope I shall not depart from the simplicity of official language, in saying, that the majesty of justice ought to be approached with solicitation, not descend to provoke or invite it, much less to debase itself by the suggestion of wrongs and the promise of redress, with the denunciation of punishment before trial, and even before accusation.
Page 569 - An act for establishing certain regulations for the better management of the affairs of the East India Company, as well in India as in Europe...
Page 162 - Orissa, and to report the same, as it shall appear to them, to the House...
Page 597 - Vizier, he be permitted, when time shall suit, to resume his lands, and pay him in money, through the Resident, the amount stipulated by treaty, after deducting the amount and charges of the troops he stands engaged to furnish by treaty ; which amount shall be passed to the account of the Company during the continuance of the present war.
Page 327 - I wish you had been present at the enlargement of the prisoners. The quivering lips, with the tears of joy stealing down the poor men's cheeks, was a scene truly affecting. LXVIII. " If the prayers of these poor men will avail, you will, at the LAST TEUMP ! be translated to the happiest regions in heaven.