The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volum 4F. & J. Rivington, 1852 |
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... prince owed the establishment of his government , against the claims of his elder brother , as well as those of other com- petitors , to the arms and influence of the British East India Company . Being thus established in a considerable ...
... prince owed the establishment of his government , against the claims of his elder brother , as well as those of other com- petitors , to the arms and influence of the British East India Company . Being thus established in a considerable ...
Side 6
... prince deposed and imprisoned , by the company's servants , influenced by the intrigues of the latter , and for the purpose of paying his pre- tended debts . The company had , in the year 1775 , ordered a 3 restoration of the rajah to ...
... prince deposed and imprisoned , by the company's servants , influenced by the intrigues of the latter , and for the purpose of paying his pre- tended debts . The company had , in the year 1775 , ordered a 3 restoration of the rajah to ...
Side 18
... prince , in the letter written to the court of directors , at the precise period , whilst the main body of these debts were contracting . In his letter he states himself to be , what undoubtedly he is , a most competent witness to this ...
... prince , in the letter written to the court of directors , at the precise period , whilst the main body of these debts were contracting . In his letter he states himself to be , what undoubtedly he is , a most competent witness to this ...
Side 27
... prince chooses it , nobody can tell his story better . Excuse me , if I apply again to my book , and give it you from the first hand ; from the nabob himself . " Mr. Stratton became acquainted with this , and got Mr. Taylor and others ...
... prince chooses it , nobody can tell his story better . Excuse me , if I apply again to my book , and give it you from the first hand ; from the nabob himself . " Mr. Stratton became acquainted with this , and got Mr. Taylor and others ...
Side 34
... prince of the country can by any motive be prevailed upon to discover any fraud that is prac- tised upon him by the company's servants . He says what ( with the exception of the complaint against the cavalry loan ) all the world knows ...
... prince of the country can by any motive be prevailed upon to discover any fraud that is prac- tised upon him by the company's servants . He says what ( with the exception of the complaint against the cavalry loan ) all the world knows ...
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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.