Annual Register, Volumen26Edmund Burke 1785 |
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... common calamity . Befides the fecurity de- rived from the great distance of the fea , the facred character af- cribed to that city , which had through many ages been confi- dered as the repofitory of the re- ligion and learning of the ...
... common calamity . Befides the fecurity de- rived from the great distance of the fea , the facred character af- cribed to that city , which had through many ages been confi- dered as the repofitory of the re- ligion and learning of the ...
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... common utility , and a provifion against any future and unforeseen danger , could afford no cause of apprehenfion , nor in- dicate any change in the Rajah's condition . payment , and difcharged it with a worse . The increafing ...
... common utility , and a provifion against any future and unforeseen danger , could afford no cause of apprehenfion , nor in- dicate any change in the Rajah's condition . payment , and difcharged it with a worse . The increafing ...
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... common vifit , to the villa or pa- lace where the Rajah then refided , which lay on the banks of the Ganges , being on the fame fide of the river with the city of Be- nares , and at about two miles diftance ; he was there to put him ...
... common vifit , to the villa or pa- lace where the Rajah then refided , which lay on the banks of the Ganges , being on the fame fide of the river with the city of Be- nares , and at about two miles diftance ; he was there to put him ...
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... common European error , which neither reason nor experience have been able to eradicate , and built too much upon the fuppofed ti- midity of the people . The antient palace of Ram- agur , lay on the oppofite fide of VOL . XXVI . the ...
... common European error , which neither reason nor experience have been able to eradicate , and built too much upon the fuppofed ti- midity of the people . The antient palace of Ram- agur , lay on the oppofite fide of VOL . XXVI . the ...
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... common powers of politi- cal forefight and enterprize , he could not have miffed the oppor- tunity which was then prefented , of ftriking an almoft decifive blew to the British interefts in India . The governor general , with about 30 ...
... common powers of politi- cal forefight and enterprize , he could not have miffed the oppor- tunity which was then prefented , of ftriking an almoft decifive blew to the British interefts in India . The governor general , with about 30 ...
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