 Calcutta more completely than we had before possessed it, and the twenty-four districts adjoining. This was the first small seminal principle of the immense territorial acquisitions we have since made in India. Many circumstances of this acquisition I...  The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke - Page 401by Edmund Burke - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 558 pages
...prince, whom we had set up. We ohtained too the town of Calcutta, more completely than we had hefore possessed it, and the twenty-four districts adjoining....India. Many circumstances of this acquisition I pass hy. There is a sacred veil to he drawn over the heginnings of all governments. Ours, in India, had... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 562 pages
...millions two hundred and thirty thousand pounds for various purposes from the prince, whom we had set up. We obtained too the town of Calcutta, more completely...in India. Many circumstances of this acquisition I P*» by. There is a sacred veil to be drawn отеr the beginnings of all governments. Ours, ui India,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 676 pages
...in the whole, a sum of about £2,230,000 for various purposes from the prince, whom we had set up. We obtained too the town of Calcutta, more completely...immense territorial acquisitions we have since made in Tndia. Many circumstances of this acquisition I pass by. There is a sacred veil to be drawn over the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 640 pages
...millions two hundred and thirty thousand pounds for various purposes from the prince whom we had set up. We obtained too the town of Calcutta, more completely...made in India. Many circumstances of this acquisition T pass by. There is a sacred veil to be drawn over the beginnings of all governments. Ours, in India,... | |
 | Francis Rawdon-Hastings Marquess of Hastings - Governors general - 1857 - 522 pages
...: in the whole a sum of about £2,230,000 for various purposes from the prince whom we had set up. We obtained too the town of Calcutta, more completely...this acquisition I pass by. There is a sacred veil to oe drawn over the beginnings of all governments. Ours, in India, had an origin like those which time... | |
 | Warren Hastings - Impeachments - 1859 - 818 pages
...of about two millions three hundred thousand, for various purposes, from the prince of the country. We obtained too the town of Calcutta more completely than we had it, and the twenty-four districts adjoining; which was the first small seminal principle of the great... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 556 pages
...prince, whom we had set up. We ohtained too the town of Caleutta, more completely than we had hefore possessed it, and the twenty-four districts adjoining....India. Many circumstances of this acquisition I pass hy. There is a sacred veil to he drawn over the heginnings of all governments. Ours, « India, had... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 434 pages
...in the whole, a sum of about 2,230,000?., for various purposes, from the prince whom we had set up. We obtained, too, the town of Calcutta more completely than we had before possessed, it, and twenty-four districts adjoining. This was the first small seminal principle of the immense territorial... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 558 pages
...of the Massachusetts Colony, revised and reprinted by order of rhe General Court, 1072, p. 15. that there is a sacred veil to be drawn over the beginnings of all governments, and that, where this is not happily supplied by time, it must be found in a discreet silence. But no... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 562 pages
...the Massachusetts Colony, revised mid reprinted by nrder itf ti'e (ierieral Court, 1672, p. 15. that there is a sacred veil to be drawn over the beginnings of all governments, and that, where this is not happily supplied by time, it must be found in a discreet silence. But no... | |
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