The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volum 4F. & J. Rivington, 1852 |
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... called Mr. Pitt's bill , the inquiry was specially , and by express words , committed to the court of directors , without any reserve for the interference of any other person or persons whatsoever . It was ordered that they should make ...
... called Mr. Pitt's bill , the inquiry was specially , and by express words , committed to the court of directors , without any reserve for the interference of any other person or persons whatsoever . It was ordered that they should make ...
Side 7
... called for some inquiry . On the 28th of February , 1785 , Mr. Fox made the following motion in the House of Commons , after moving that the clauses of the act should be read " That the proper officer do lay before this House copies and ...
... called for some inquiry . On the 28th of February , 1785 , Mr. Fox made the following motion in the House of Commons , after moving that the clauses of the act should be read " That the proper officer do lay before this House copies and ...
Side 16
... called for , and long engaged , the attention of the court of directors . This debt amounted to eight hundred and eighty thousand pounds sterling , and was claimed , for the greater part , by English gentle- men , residing at Madras ...
... called for , and long engaged , the attention of the court of directors . This debt amounted to eight hundred and eighty thousand pounds sterling , and was claimed , for the greater part , by English gentle- men , residing at Madras ...
Side 17
... called the cavalry debt , of one hun- dred and sixty thousand pounds , at the same interest . The whole of these four capitals , amounting to four millions four hundred and forty thousand pounds , produced at their several rates ...
... called the cavalry debt , of one hun- dred and sixty thousand pounds , at the same interest . The whole of these four capitals , amounting to four millions four hundred and forty thousand pounds , produced at their several rates ...
Side 31
... called the cavalry loan . After dispatching this , the right honourable gentleman leads to battle his last grand division , the consolidated debt of 1777. But having exhausted all his panegyric on the two first , he has nothing at all ...
... called the cavalry loan . After dispatching this , the right honourable gentleman leads to battle his last grand division , the consolidated debt of 1777. But having exhausted all his panegyric on the two first , he has nothing at all ...
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Side 172 - That King James II., having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between king and people ; and by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby vacant.
Side 220 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour.
Side 445 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Side 41 - ... compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
Side 178 - Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete.
Side 229 - ... should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe, and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country, who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisonous weeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life.
Side 230 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Side 173 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Side 198 - Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.