The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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... director , the regu- lator , the standard of them all . Metaphysics cannot live without definition ; but prudence is cautious how she defines . Our courts cannot be more fearful in suffering fictitious cases to be brought before them ...
... director , the regu- lator , the standard of them all . Metaphysics cannot live without definition ; but prudence is cautious how she defines . Our courts cannot be more fearful in suffering fictitious cases to be brought before them ...
Page 119
... directors , without any reserve for the interference of any other person or persons whatsoever . It was ordered that they should make the inquiry into the origin and justice of these debts , as far as the materials in their possession ...
... directors , without any reserve for the interference of any other person or persons whatsoever . It was ordered that they should make the inquiry into the origin and justice of these debts , as far as the materials in their possession ...
Page 120
... directors , having drawn up their order to dency on these principles , communicated the drau general letter in which those orders were contai board of his Majesty's ministers , and other serv constituted by Mr. Pitt's East - India act ...
... directors , having drawn up their order to dency on these principles , communicated the drau general letter in which those orders were contai board of his Majesty's ministers , and other serv constituted by Mr. Pitt's East - India act ...
Page 121
... directors , in obedience to this part of the act , ordered an inquiry , and came to a determination to restore certain of his territories to the Rajah . The ministers proceeding as in the former case , without hearing any party ...
... directors , in obedience to this part of the act , ordered an inquiry , and came to a determination to restore certain of his territories to the Rajah . The ministers proceeding as in the former case , without hearing any party ...
Page 123
... directors , in order to transfer the public revenues to the private emolument of certain servants of the East - India Company , without the in- quiry into the origin and justice of their claims , prescribed by an act of parliament ? It ...
... directors , in order to transfer the public revenues to the private emolument of certain servants of the East - India Company , without the in- quiry into the origin and justice of their claims , prescribed by an act of parliament ? It ...
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Page 541 - History of the House of Austria. From the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold II., 1218-1792.
Page 344 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 157 - ... flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities ; but escaping from fire, sword and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine.
Page 158 - 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...