Annual Register, Volume 27Edmund Burke 1787 |
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... means anfwered our expectation with refpect to the faving or gaining of time . We have found the double work exceedingly heavy ; and the business in its amount went far beyond our calculation . The cri- tical circumstances , the ...
... means anfwered our expectation with refpect to the faving or gaining of time . We have found the double work exceedingly heavy ; and the business in its amount went far beyond our calculation . The cri- tical circumstances , the ...
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... means , and at different periods , fubject to their own peculiar forms of government , and ftill retaining many of their original rights and inftitutions . It would have been contrary to all experience , and confequently to hu- man ...
... means , and at different periods , fubject to their own peculiar forms of government , and ftill retaining many of their original rights and inftitutions . It would have been contrary to all experience , and confequently to hu- man ...
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Edmund Burke. 1 1 · fpect to the means of carrying on their. any foundation of political know- ledge and experience , that the un- expected disclosure of fuch a scene , with the magnitude of the objects which it exhibited , and the ...
Edmund Burke. 1 1 · fpect to the means of carrying on their. any foundation of political know- ledge and experience , that the un- expected disclosure of fuch a scene , with the magnitude of the objects which it exhibited , and the ...
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... means of transferring from Hol- land to the Auftrian Netherlands the course of that vaft commerce , which , through the medium of the canals and great German rivers , England carried on with that and otherEastern and Northern continen ...
... means of transferring from Hol- land to the Auftrian Netherlands the course of that vaft commerce , which , through the medium of the canals and great German rivers , England carried on with that and otherEastern and Northern continen ...
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Edmund Burke. 1 · fpect to the means of carrying on their trade , which they had never experienced in any other war ... mean time , the growing opulence of Oftend exceeded all be- lief . The limits of the city became too narrow for its ...
Edmund Burke. 1 · fpect to the means of carrying on their trade , which they had never experienced in any other war ... mean time , the growing opulence of Oftend exceeded all be- lief . The limits of the city became too narrow for its ...
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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.