For otherwise it is not only the East India Company, which is a great interest, that is undone, but, clinging to the security of all your funds, it drags down the rest, and the whole fabric perishes in one ruin.
Burke warns that the failure of the East India Company could lead to a broader economic collapse.
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Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?
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