The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4F. & J. Rivington, 1852 |
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... interest among the servants of that company , and among others both at home and abroad . By engaging them in his interests , the use of the com- pany's power might be obtained without their ostensible authority : the power might even be ...
... interest among the servants of that company , and among others both at home and abroad . By engaging them in his interests , the use of the com- pany's power might be obtained without their ostensible authority : the power might even be ...
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... interest , was exact , that is , whether they took the interest too high , or the several capitals too low , is not material . On whatever principle any of the calculations was made up , none of them found the debt to differ from the ...
... interest , was exact , that is , whether they took the interest too high , or the several capitals too low , is not material . On whatever principle any of the calculations was made up , none of them found the debt to differ from the ...
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... interest in it is decreased in proportion as it recedes from our view . In our politics , as in our common conduct , we shall be worse than infants , if we do not put our senses under the tuition of our judgment , and effectually cure ...
... interest in it is decreased in proportion as it recedes from our view . In our politics , as in our common conduct , we shall be worse than infants , if we do not put our senses under the tuition of our judgment , and effectually cure ...
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... interest of 12 per cent . This is known by the name of the Consolidation of 1777 , as the former of the nabob's debts was by Appendix , No. 2 . 7 Fourth report , Mr. Dundas's committee , p . 4 . 8 A witness examined before the committee ...
... interest of 12 per cent . This is known by the name of the Consolidation of 1777 , as the former of the nabob's debts was by Appendix , No. 2 . 7 Fourth report , Mr. Dundas's committee , p . 4 . 8 A witness examined before the committee ...
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... interest . The whole of these four capitals , amounting to four millions four hundred and forty thousand pounds , produced at their several rates , annuitics amounting to six hundred and twenty - three thousand pounds a year ; a good ...
... interest . The whole of these four capitals , amounting to four millions four hundred and forty thousand pounds , produced at their several rates , annuitics amounting to six hundred and twenty - three thousand pounds a year ; a good ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 445 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 173 - An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject...
Page 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.