The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Political miscellaniesG. Bell & sons, 1887 |
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Page 120
... Rajah of Tanjor Nabob of Arcot ; and in this , as in the former case , of appeal , revision , or alteration , was reserved to a It was a jurisdiction , in a cause between party a given to the court of directors specifically . It w that ...
... Rajah of Tanjor Nabob of Arcot ; and in this , as in the former case , of appeal , revision , or alteration , was reserved to a It was a jurisdiction , in a cause between party a given to the court of directors specifically . It w that ...
Page 121
... Rajah to his government , under certain conditions . The Rajah complained that his territories had not been completely restored to him ; and that no part of his goods , money , revenue , or records , unjustly taken and with- held from ...
... Rajah to his government , under certain conditions . The Rajah complained that his territories had not been completely restored to him ; and that no part of his goods , money , revenue , or records , unjustly taken and with- held from ...
Page 136
... Rajah of Tanjore , amounting to four lacks of rupees [ £ 40,000 ] . " The terri- torial revenue , at that time possessed by these gentlemen , without the knowledge or consent of their masters , amounted to three hundred and sixty ...
... Rajah of Tanjore , amounting to four lacks of rupees [ £ 40,000 ] . " The terri- torial revenue , at that time possessed by these gentlemen , without the knowledge or consent of their masters , amounted to three hundred and sixty ...
Page 172
... Rajah of Tanjore , has lost for several years what it might have looked to receive from its own estate . If men were allowed to credit themselves upon such principles , any one might soon grow rich by this mode of ac- counting . A flood ...
... Rajah of Tanjore , has lost for several years what it might have looked to receive from its own estate . If men were allowed to credit themselves upon such principles , any one might soon grow rich by this mode of ac- counting . A flood ...
Page 173
... Rajah of Tanjore , and at one stroke expunged them all , as utterly irrecoverable ; he might have added , as utterly unfounded . On these grounds I do not blame the arrangement this day in question , as a preference given to the debt of ...
... Rajah of Tanjore , and at one stroke expunged them all , as utterly irrecoverable ; he might have added , as utterly unfounded . On these grounds I do not blame the arrangement this day in question , as a preference given to the debt of ...
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Page 541 - History of the House of Austria. From the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold II., 1218-1792.
Page 344 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 157 - ... flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities ; but escaping from fire, sword and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine.
Page 158 - For eighteen months without intermission this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore ; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One...