The state of the Company's commerce will therefore become an object of serious consideration: an affair, as your Committee apprehends, of as much difficulty as ever tried the faculties of this House.
Burke asserts that the state of the Company's commerce is a complex issue that requires serious attention from the House.
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Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.
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The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
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