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" ... therefore no sooner elected than he set off for Madras, and defrauded the longing eyes of Parliament. We have never enjoyed in this House the luxury of beholding that minion of the human race, and contemplating that visage which has so long reflected... "
The History of British India - Page 32
by James Mill - 1848
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...reflected the happinefs of nations. It was therefore not poffible for the minifter to confult perfonally with this great man. What then was he to do ? Through a fagacity that never failed him in thefe purfuits, he found out in Mr. Benfield's reprefentative, his...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 22

1814 - 556 pages
...longing eyes of the House could not behold ' that minion of the human race. ' — ' It was therefore not possible for the minister to consult personally with this great man. What was he then to do ? Through a 'sagacity that never failed him in these pursuits, he found out, in Mr...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4

Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 464 pages
...reflected the pinefs of nations. It was therefore not poffible for the minifter td confult peribnally with this great man. What then was he to do ? Through a fagacity that never failed him in thefe purfuits, he found out in Mr. Benfield's reprefentative, his...
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The State of the Nation: In a Series of Letters to His Grace, the Duke of ...

John Cartwright - Bedford, John Russell, 6th Duke of, 1766-1839 - 1805 - 194 pages
...— " Mr. Benfield was " no sooner elected than he set off for Madrass. It " was therefore impossible for the minister, to consult " personally with this...failed him in " these pursuits, he found out in Mr. Benjteld's repre" sentative, his exact resemblance. A specific a ttrac" tion, by which he gravitates...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...and contemplating that visage, which has so long reflected the happiness of nations. It was therefore not possible for the minister to consult personally...Benfield's representative, his exact resemblance. A specifick attraction by which he gravitates towards all such characters, soon brought our minister...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...and contemplating that visage, which has so long reflected the happiness of nations. It was therefore not possible for the minister to consult personally...Benfield's representative, his exact resemblance. A specifick attraction by which he gravitates towards all such characters, soon brought our minister...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...and contemplating that visage, which has so long reflected the happiness of nations. It was therefore not possible for the minister to consult personally...Benfield's .representative, his exact resemblance. A specifick attraction by which he gravitates towards all such characters, soon brought our minister...
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The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year ...

William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1815 - 746 pages
...and contemplating that visage, which has so long reflected the happiness of nations. It was therefore not possible for the minister to consult personally...failed him in these pursuits, he found out in Mr. Henticid's representative, his exact resemblance. A specific attraction by which he gravitates towards...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 34

Scotland - 1833 - 1056 pages
...happiness of nations." « » " The Minister, through a sagacity which never failed him in those pursuits, found out in Mr Benfield's representative his exact...gravitates towards all such characters, soon brought himirito a close connexion with Mr Benfield's agent here. This man was held up to the world as legislator...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...and contemplating that visage, which has so long reflected tho happiness of nations. It was therefore mple connection with Mr. Benfield's agent and attorney ; that is, with the grand contractor (whom I name...
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