The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volumen3Little, Brown,, 1865 |
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... reserved to any other . It was a jurisdic- tion , in a cause between party and party , given to the Court of Directors specifically . It was known that the territories of the former of these princes had been twice 8 ADVERTISEMENT .
... reserved to any other . It was a jurisdic- tion , in a cause between party and party , given to the Court of Directors specifically . It was known that the territories of the former of these princes had been twice 8 ADVERTISEMENT .
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... given up to him , in violation of the Company's public faith . The Directors , in obedience to this part of the act , ordered an inquiry , and came to a determination to restore certain of his territories to the Rajah . The ministers ...
... given up to him , in violation of the Company's public faith . The Directors , in obedience to this part of the act , ordered an inquiry , and came to a determination to restore certain of his territories to the Rajah . The ministers ...
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... given to the public , not as being more wor- thy of its attention than others , ( some of which were of consummate ability , ) but as entering more into the detail of the subject . THE SPEECH . HE times we live in , Mr. 10 ADVERTISEMENT .
... given to the public , not as being more wor- thy of its attention than others , ( some of which were of consummate ability , ) but as entering more into the detail of the subject . THE SPEECH . HE times we live in , Mr. 10 ADVERTISEMENT .
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... given to any persons by name to do some particular act , that no others , by virtue of general powers , can obtain a legal title to intrude themselves into that trust , and to ex- ercise those special functions in their place . I there ...
... given to any persons by name to do some particular act , that no others , by virtue of general powers , can obtain a legal title to intrude themselves into that trust , and to ex- ercise those special functions in their place . I there ...
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... given to that court , they must take it as they found it , subject to the very same regulations which bound the Court of Directors . It will be al- lowed that the Court of Directors had no authority to dispense with either the substance ...
... given to that court , they must take it as they found it , subject to the very same regulations which bound the Court of Directors . It will be al- lowed that the Court of Directors had no authority to dispense with either the substance ...
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Página 274 - A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Página 359 - Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact, sanctioned by the inviolable oath, which holds all physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place.
Página 267 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Página 359 - Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure — but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Página 344 - 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...
Página 346 - Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices, employ their sagacity to discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. If they find what they seek, and they seldom fail, they think it more wise to continue the prejudice, with the reason involved, than to cast away the coat of prejudice and to leave nothing but the naked reason...
Página 333 - All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. All the superadded ideas, furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination, which the heart owns, and the understanding ratifies, as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature, and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation, are to be exploded as a ridiculous, absurd, and antiquated fashion.
Página 62 - Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance ; and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.
Página 252 - Parliament was made intituled an Act for declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and for settling the succession of the crown...
Página 308 - Far am I from denying in theory, full as far is my heart from withholding in practice, ( if I were of power to give or to withhold,) the real rights of men. In denying their false claims of right, I do not mean to injure those which are real, and are such as their pretended rights would totally destroy.