The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund BurkeS. Holdsworth, 1837 - Great Britain |
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... nature . Your committee has taken abundant care , that every important fact in their report should be attended with the authority for it , either in the course of their reflections , or in the Appendix ; to report every thing upon every ...
... nature . Your committee has taken abundant care , that every important fact in their report should be attended with the authority for it , either in the course of their reflections , or in the Appendix ; to report every thing upon every ...
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... nature . It was then adopted , and owned as a resource for persons in office ; was managed chiefly by the civil servants of the Patna factory , and for their own benefit . The policy was justified on the usual principles on which mono ...
... nature . It was then adopted , and owned as a resource for persons in office ; was managed chiefly by the civil servants of the Patna factory , and for their own benefit . The policy was justified on the usual principles on which mono ...
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... nature there can be no perfect remedy as long as the monopoly continues . They are in the nature of the thing , and cannot be cured , or effectually counteracted , even by a just and vigi- lant administration on the spot . Many ...
... nature there can be no perfect remedy as long as the monopoly continues . They are in the nature of the thing , and cannot be cured , or effectually counteracted , even by a just and vigi- lant administration on the spot . Many ...
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... nature not in the least to be expected from the condition in which the cause of his principal stood , which was apparently as favourable as the circumstances could bear . Hitherto the support of Mr. Hastings in the general court was ...
... nature not in the least to be expected from the condition in which the cause of his principal stood , which was apparently as favourable as the circumstances could bear . Hitherto the support of Mr. Hastings in the general court was ...
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... nature and tendency of this pretended dignity , and to illustrate the real principles upon which they appear to have acted , think it necessary to make observations on three or four of the cases , already reported , of marked ...
... nature and tendency of this pretended dignity , and to illustrate the real principles upon which they appear to have acted , think it necessary to make observations on three or four of the cases , already reported , of marked ...
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Page 271 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family: I should have left a son who, in all the points in which personal merit can be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honour, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment and every liberal accomplishment...
Page 323 - And turn the unwilling steeds another way ; Benighted wanderers, the forest o'er, Curse the saved candle and unopening door ; . While the gaunt mastiff, growling at the gate, Affrights the beggar whom he longs to eat.
Page 265 - He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business, of infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honor the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command that the time required.
Page 272 - Sion— as long as the British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers...
Page 273 - As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects the Lords and commons of this realm, the triple cord which no man can break; the solemn sworn constitutional frankpledge of this nation; the firm guarantees of each other's being, and each other's rights; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity...
Page 272 - But a Disposer whose power we are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behoves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better.
Page 368 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence.
Page 225 - 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 122 - 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.