The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volum 4F. & J. Rivington, 1852 |
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Side 28
... continue their pay from that time till this . I hoped to have been able , by this expedient , to have lessened the number of my troops , and discharged the arrears due to them , considering the trifle of interest to Mr. Taylor , and the ...
... continue their pay from that time till this . I hoped to have been able , by this expedient , to have lessened the number of my troops , and discharged the arrears due to them , considering the trifle of interest to Mr. Taylor , and the ...
Side 54
... not denied , that the nabob's farmers of revenue seldom continue for three months together . From this the state of the country may be easily judged of . ing and contradictory titles , all issuing from one and 54 SPEECH ON THE.
... not denied , that the nabob's farmers of revenue seldom continue for three months together . From this the state of the country may be easily judged of . ing and contradictory titles , all issuing from one and 54 SPEECH ON THE.
Side 101
... continuing to withhold the jaghire from the descendants of Tremaul Row ; his hereditary right to that jaghire seems to us to have been fully recognized by the stipulations of the treaty of 1762 , and so little doubted , that on his ...
... continuing to withhold the jaghire from the descendants of Tremaul Row ; his hereditary right to that jaghire seems to us to have been fully recognized by the stipulations of the treaty of 1762 , and so little doubted , that on his ...
Side 110
... continue as long after the war as shall be necessary , to discharge the burdens contracted by it ; but it must be declared , that this pro- vision shall in no respect extend to deprive either the nabob or the rajah of the substantial ...
... continue as long after the war as shall be necessary , to discharge the burdens contracted by it ; but it must be declared , that this pro- vision shall in no respect extend to deprive either the nabob or the rajah of the substantial ...
Side 115
... continue till the principal of the debt of 1767 is discharged . The application of the twelve lacs is then to be , 1. To the interest of the debt of 1777 , as above . The remainder to be then equally divided ; one half towards the ...
... continue till the principal of the debt of 1767 is discharged . The application of the twelve lacs is then to be , 1. To the interest of the debt of 1777 , as above . The remainder to be then equally divided ; one half towards the ...
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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.