The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund BurkeS. Holdsworth, 1837 |
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... William De- vaynes , Esquires , chairman and deputy chairman of the court of directors , stating , that he trusted ... Fort Saint - George to obtain for that settlement supplies of grain , troops , and money , from the governour ...
... William De- vaynes , Esquires , chairman and deputy chairman of the court of directors , stating , that he trusted ... Fort Saint - George to obtain for that settlement supplies of grain , troops , and money , from the governour ...
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... Fort William . If that , after the sums of money had been extorted the company's servants had taken a new date from on account of the farms , the faith usual in such that period , and if from thenceforward their con- transactions is ...
... Fort William . If that , after the sums of money had been extorted the company's servants had taken a new date from on account of the farms , the faith usual in such that period , and if from thenceforward their con- transactions is ...
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... Fort William , 29th November , 1780 . HONOURABLE SIRS , You will be informed by our consultations of the 26th of June of a very unusual tender , which was made by me to the board on that day for the purpose of indemnifying the company ...
... Fort William , 29th November , 1780 . HONOURABLE SIRS , You will be informed by our consultations of the 26th of June of a very unusual tender , which was made by me to the board on that day for the purpose of indemnifying the company ...
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... Fort - William , 22d May 1782 . HONOURABLE SIRS , In a letter , which I have had the honour to ad- dress you in duplicate , and of which a triplicate accompanies this , dated 20th January 1782 , I in- formed you , that I had received ...
... Fort - William , 22d May 1782 . HONOURABLE SIRS , In a letter , which I have had the honour to ad- dress you in duplicate , and of which a triplicate accompanies this , dated 20th January 1782 , I in- formed you , that I had received ...
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... Fort William , 22d May 1782 . Current rupees 10,30,275 1 3 19,64,990 3 6 ( Errours excepted . ) WARREN HASTINGS . APPENDIX B. No. 5 . CRs . 9,34,715 2 3 that degree of confidence from my immediate employers , which they never withheld ...
... Fort William , 22d May 1782 . Current rupees 10,30,275 1 3 19,64,990 3 6 ( Errours excepted . ) WARREN HASTINGS . APPENDIX B. No. 5 . CRs . 9,34,715 2 3 that degree of confidence from my immediate employers , which they never withheld ...
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Страница 271 - Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should have been, according to my mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the age I live in, a sort of founder of a family: I should have left a son who, in all the points in which personal merit can be viewed, in science, in erudition, in genius, in taste, in honour, in generosity, in humanity, in every liberal sentiment and every liberal accomplishment...
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Страница 265 - He was a man of admirable parts, of general knowledge, of a versatile understanding fitted for every sort of business, of infinite wit and pleasantry, of a delightful temper, and with a mind most perfectly disinterested. But it would be only to degrade myself by a weak adulation, and not to honor the memory of a great man, to deny that he wanted something of the vigilance and spirit of command that the time required.
Страница 272 - Sion— as long as the British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers...
Страница 273 - As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects the Lords and commons of this realm, the triple cord which no man can break; the solemn sworn constitutional frankpledge of this nation; the firm guarantees of each other's being, and each other's rights; the joint and several securities, each in its place and order for every kind and every quality of property and of dignity...
Страница 272 - But a Disposer whose power we are little able to resist, and whose wisdom it behoves us not at all to dispute, has ordained it in another manner, and (whatever my querulous weakness might suggest) a far better.
Страница 368 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence.
Страница 225 - An act for establishing certain regulations for the better management of the affairs of the East India Company, as well in India as in Europe...
Страница 122 - Sir, the Nabob having determined to inflict corporal punishment upon the prisoners under your guard, this is to desire that his officers, when they shall come, may have free access to the prisoners, and be permitted to do with them as they shall see proper.