The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 10Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... observe in the charges before you , an article of charge by itself , but likewise so intermixes with the whole , that it is necessary to give , in the best manner I am able , a history of that corrupt system which brought on all the ...
... observe in the charges before you , an article of charge by itself , but likewise so intermixes with the whole , that it is necessary to give , in the best manner I am able , a history of that corrupt system which brought on all the ...
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... observation , that it is im- possible for me to pass him by . Whoever has heard of Mr. Hastings's name , with any knowledge of Indian connections , has heard of his banian , Cantoo Baboo . This man is well known in the records of the ...
... observation , that it is im- possible for me to pass him by . Whoever has heard of Mr. Hastings's name , with any knowledge of Indian connections , has heard of his banian , Cantoo Baboo . This man is well known in the records of the ...
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... observe he is never corrupt , but he is cruel ; he never dines with comfort , but where he is sure to create a famine . He never robs from the loose superfluity of standing greatness ; he devours the fallen , the indigent , the ...
... observe he is never corrupt , but he is cruel ; he never dines with comfort , but where he is sure to create a famine . He never robs from the loose superfluity of standing greatness ; he devours the fallen , the indigent , the ...
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... observe the same means with the rest . It will not be expected that I should be able to give a more correct explanation of my intentions after a lapse of three years , having declared at the time that many particulars had escaped my ...
... observe the same means with the rest . It will not be expected that I should be able to give a more correct explanation of my intentions after a lapse of three years , having declared at the time that many particulars had escaped my ...
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... Observe , here is a man taking money privately , corruptly , and which was to be sanctified by the future application of it , taking false securities to cover it , and who , when called upon to tell whom he got the money from , for what ...
... Observe , here is a man taking money privately , corruptly , and which was to be sanctified by the future application of it , taking false securities to cover it , and who , when called upon to tell whom he got the money from , for what ...
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