The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 10Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 9
... Company , he does not pretend that it was ob- tained from their zeal and affection to our cause , or that it made their submission more complete : very far from it . He says they ought to be independent , and all that you have to do is ...
... Company , he does not pretend that it was ob- tained from their zeal and affection to our cause , or that it made their submission more complete : very far from it . He says they ought to be independent , and all that you have to do is ...
Page 11
... Company put him into this situation . Since that he has thought proper to justify himself , not by clearing himself of receiving bribes , but by saying that no bad conse- quences resulted from it , and that , if any such evil ...
... Company put him into this situation . Since that he has thought proper to justify himself , not by clearing himself of receiving bribes , but by saying that no bad conse- quences resulted from it , and that , if any such evil ...
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... Company . Mr. Hastings then broke up the Council , I will not say whether legally or illegally . The Company's law counsel thought he might legally do it ; but he corruptly did it , and left mankind no room to judge but that it was done ...
... Company . Mr. Hastings then broke up the Council , I will not say whether legally or illegally . The Company's law counsel thought he might legally do it ; but he corruptly did it , and left mankind no room to judge but that it was done ...
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... Company was invested with a fiction of property in all such bribes , in order to drag them with more facility out of ... Company's service in any way the briber should think fit , and that on many occasions this would prove the best ...
... Company was invested with a fiction of property in all such bribes , in order to drag them with more facility out of ... Company's service in any way the briber should think fit , and that on many occasions this would prove the best ...
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... Company , -all for the advan- tage of his honored masters , the Proprietors , all in gratitude to the dear perfidious Court of Directors , who have been in a practice to heap " insults on his person , slanders on his character , and ...
... Company , -all for the advan- tage of his honored masters , the Proprietors , all in gratitude to the dear perfidious Court of Directors , who have been in a practice to heap " insults on his person , slanders on his character , and ...
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