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Its whole service is a system of public offices in the disguise of a counting-house.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Its whole service is a system of public offices in the disguise of a counting-house.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke claims that the East India Company's operations are essentially a system of public offices disguised as a business.
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