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Mr. Burke's speech on the motion made for papers relative to the directions for charging the Nabob of Arcot's private debts to Europeans, on the revenues of the Carnatic, February 28th, 1785.
By Edmund Burke
Printed for J.Dodsley, London - 1785.

EDMUND BURKE
Born in 1729 (or 1730) in Ireland, Edmund Burke keenly felt the injustices of the Penal Law. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin, and in 1750 set off for London and the Middle Temple, with the intention of acquiring the training necessary to qualify for the Irish bar. However, "he showed little taste for the law, and developed a lasting dislike for the narrowness of those who practiced it" (Oxford DNB).
Instead he began to explore the English and Welsh countryside and to write. His first books enquired into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and described European settlements in America. He wrote a popular annual periodical that surveyed politics, art and science. His next career move brought him face to face with murder.

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