Annual Register, Volume 27Edmund Burke 1787 |
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... duty ; that , whatever he fuffered in the at- tempt , or , if he was doomed to pe- rish in the execution , it would be no more than what he was bound to en- dure ; that the event lay with God , but the fulfilling of his duty , fo far ...
... duty ; that , whatever he fuffered in the at- tempt , or , if he was doomed to pe- rish in the execution , it would be no more than what he was bound to en- dure ; that the event lay with God , but the fulfilling of his duty , fo far ...
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... duty . The number of houfes deftroyed was calculated at ten thousand , befides mofques , churches , and other public edi- fices . But this fire , dreadful as it was , feemed only a preparatory notice to that unfortunate city of the ...
... duty . The number of houfes deftroyed was calculated at ten thousand , befides mofques , churches , and other public edi- fices . But this fire , dreadful as it was , feemed only a preparatory notice to that unfortunate city of the ...
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... duty to the public required he should go through it . But this alone , he added , would not be fufficient . He declared his conviction of the neceffity of fend- ing out to India certain perfons , to be named by his Majesty , or by ...
... duty to the public required he should go through it . But this alone , he added , would not be fufficient . He declared his conviction of the neceffity of fend- ing out to India certain perfons , to be named by his Majesty , or by ...
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... duty of the court of directors , in conformity to the fenfe " expreffed by this Houfe , forthwith " to recall fuch member or members of " their principal prefidencies as ap * Thefe words were afterwards left out of the refolution , and ...
... duty of the court of directors , in conformity to the fenfe " expreffed by this Houfe , forthwith " to recall fuch member or members of " their principal prefidencies as ap * Thefe words were afterwards left out of the refolution , and ...
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... duty . " A The motion was oppofed , as ma- nifeftly factious , and as interfering with the executive part of govern- ment , and trenching on the un- doubted prerogative of the crown , without any juftifiable caufe . member obferved ...
... duty . " A The motion was oppofed , as ma- nifeftly factious , and as interfering with the executive part of govern- ment , and trenching on the un- doubted prerogative of the crown , without any juftifiable caufe . member obferved ...
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 284 - The Principles of Government, in a Dialogue between a Gentleman and a farmer.