The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 10Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... hands , a chief governor of a great em- pire receiving bribes from poor , miserable , indigent people , this is what makes government itself base , contemptible , and odious in the eyes of mankind . My Lords , it is certain that even ...
... hands , a chief governor of a great em- pire receiving bribes from poor , miserable , indigent people , this is what makes government itself base , contemptible , and odious in the eyes of mankind . My Lords , it is certain that even ...
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Edmund Burke. Governors , we know very well , cannot with their own hands be continually receiving bribes , - for then they must have as many hands as one of the idols in an Indian temple , in order to receive all the bribes which a ...
Edmund Burke. Governors , we know very well , cannot with their own hands be continually receiving bribes , - for then they must have as many hands as one of the idols in an Indian temple , in order to receive all the bribes which a ...
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... hands , and go on with his information ; noth- ing less than stone - dead would do the business . And here happened an odd concurrence of circumstances . Long before Nundcomar preferred his charge , he knew that Mr. Hastings was ...
... hands , and go on with his information ; noth- ing less than stone - dead would do the business . And here happened an odd concurrence of circumstances . Long before Nundcomar preferred his charge , he knew that Mr. Hastings was ...
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... hands which held them . The covenant , with an exception of one hundred pounds , and the act of Parliament , with- out any exception , declared that the Governor - Gen- eral and Council should receive no presents for their own use . He ...
... hands which held them . The covenant , with an exception of one hundred pounds , and the act of Parliament , with- out any exception , declared that the Governor - Gen- eral and Council should receive no presents for their own use . He ...
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... hands , brib- ery , venality , and peculation are offences of turpi- tude , such as , in a governor , at once debase the per- son and degrade the government itself , making it not only horrible , but vile and contemptible in the eyes of ...
... hands , brib- ery , venality , and peculation are offences of turpi- tude , such as , in a governor , at once debase the per- son and degrade the government itself , making it not only horrible , but vile and contemptible in the eyes of ...
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