The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 10Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... corruption . I will venture to say there is no one act , in which tyranny , malice , cruelty , and op- pression can be charged , that does not at the same time carry evident marks of pecuniary corruption . . I stated to your Lordships ...
... corruption . I will venture to say there is no one act , in which tyranny , malice , cruelty , and op- pression can be charged , that does not at the same time carry evident marks of pecuniary corruption . . I stated to your Lordships ...
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... Corruption and arbitrary power are of natural unequivocal gener- ation , necessarily producing one another . Mr. Hast- ings foresees the abusive and corrupt consequences , and then he justifies his conduct upon the necessi- ties of that ...
... Corruption and arbitrary power are of natural unequivocal gener- ation , necessarily producing one another . Mr. Hast- ings foresees the abusive and corrupt consequences , and then he justifies his conduct upon the necessi- ties of that ...
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... corruption attaching to them than to any similar offices in any part of the globe , or that have existed at any time : so that he who would set up a system of corruption , and attempt to justify it upon the principle of utility , that ...
... corruption attaching to them than to any similar offices in any part of the globe , or that have existed at any time : so that he who would set up a system of corruption , and attempt to justify it upon the principle of utility , that ...
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... corruption under the name of presents , and all the monstrous consequences that followed it . - Now , my Lords , every office of trust , in its very nature , forbids the receipt of bribes . But Mr. Hast- ings was forbidden it , first ...
... corruption under the name of presents , and all the monstrous consequences that followed it . - Now , my Lords , every office of trust , in its very nature , forbids the receipt of bribes . But Mr. Hast- ings was forbidden it , first ...
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... corrupt auc- tion ; and such favored landholders as came to it were obliged to consider themselves as not any longer ... corruption which guided Mr. Hastings's conduct . · • - When the ancient nobility , the great SPEECH IN OPENING . 15 ...
... corrupt auc- tion ; and such favored landholders as came to it were obliged to consider themselves as not any longer ... corruption which guided Mr. Hastings's conduct . · • - When the ancient nobility , the great SPEECH IN OPENING . 15 ...
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