So long as that corporation continued to receive a vast quantity of merchantable goods without any disbursement for the purchase, so long it possessed wherewithal to continue a dividend to pay debts, and to contribute to the state.
Burke critiques the East India Company's financial practices and their reliance on unearned wealth.
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