The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 10Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 40
... paying them in and taking bonds for them as money of his own , and bearing legal interest . This was his method of endeavoring to conceal some at least of his - bribes for I would not suggest , nor have 40 IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS .
... paying them in and taking bonds for them as money of his own , and bearing legal interest . This was his method of endeavoring to conceal some at least of his - bribes for I would not suggest , nor have 40 IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS .
Page 50
... bonds for this money , if it was not your own ? How came you to vitiate and corrupt the state of the Company's records , and to state yourself a lender to the Company , when in reality you were their debtor ? " His answer was , " I ...
... bonds for this money , if it was not your own ? How came you to vitiate and corrupt the state of the Company's records , and to state yourself a lender to the Company , when in reality you were their debtor ? " His answer was , " I ...
Page 60
... bond to himself , on his own account , as for money lent to the Company . For , upon the frequent , pressing , tender solicitations of the Court of Directors , always insinuated to him in a very delicate manner , Mr. Hastings had ...
... bond to himself , on his own account , as for money lent to the Company . For , upon the frequent , pressing , tender solicitations of the Court of Directors , always insinuated to him in a very delicate manner , Mr. Hastings had ...
Page 77
... bonds and fetters compelled them to sign their own ruin by an increase of rent which they knew they could never realize . Having thus gotten them under , he added exaction to exaction , so that every day announced some new and varied ...
... bonds and fetters compelled them to sign their own ruin by an increase of rent which they knew they could never realize . Having thus gotten them under , he added exaction to exaction , so that every day announced some new and varied ...
Page 142
... bond of a social and moral community , — all the Commons of Eng- land resenting , as their own , the indignities and cruelties that are offered to all the people of India . Do we want a tribunal ? My Lords , no example of antiquity ...
... bond of a social and moral community , — all the Commons of Eng- land resenting , as their own , the indignities and cruelties that are offered to all the people of India . Do we want a tribunal ? My Lords , no example of antiquity ...
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