The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Charge against Warren Hastings concluded. Political lettersG. Bell & sons, 1889 |
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... means of reconciling a substantial breach of their engagement with a formal observance of it , and taught them how they might at once be parties in a peace with Hyder Ally , and in an offensive alliance for immediate hostility against ...
... means of reconciling a substantial breach of their engagement with a formal observance of it , and taught them how they might at once be parties in a peace with Hyder Ally , and in an offensive alliance for immediate hostility against ...
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... means of the presidency Fort St. George , upon principles of justice and honour , a which established peace in India ; and thereby exposing t British possessions there to the renewal of the dangers ar calamities of war - has by these ...
... means of the presidency Fort St. George , upon principles of justice and honour , a which established peace in India ; and thereby exposing t British possessions there to the renewal of the dangers ar calamities of war - has by these ...
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... means he hoped in God , that he should receive justice ; " and as " the person who designed the war , was no more ; as " in that he was himself guilt- less ; and as 66 he had never acted in such a manner as for the vizier to have taken ...
... means he hoped in God , that he should receive justice ; " and as " the person who designed the war , was no more ; as " in that he was himself guilt- less ; and as 66 he had never acted in such a manner as for the vizier to have taken ...
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... means wished the vizier to lose time by seeking an accommodation , since it would be more effectual , more decisive , and more consistent with his dignity , indeed with his honour , which he has already pledged , to abide by his first ...
... means wished the vizier to lose time by seeking an accommodation , since it would be more effectual , more decisive , and more consistent with his dignity , indeed with his honour , which he has already pledged , to abide by his first ...
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... means to have been persuaded of his own right to five thousand horse under the treaty ; since in his correspondence on the subject he ( the vizier ) no where mentions the treaty as the ground of his demand , except where he is ...
... means to have been persuaded of his own right to five thousand horse under the treaty ; since in his correspondence on the subject he ( the vizier ) no where mentions the treaty as the ground of his demand , except where he is ...
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