The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 10Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... transactions were likely to subvert that empire which was first established upon them , did , in the year 1765 , send out a body of the strongest and most solemn covenants to their servants , that they should take no presents from the ...
... transactions were likely to subvert that empire which was first established upon them , did , in the year 1765 , send out a body of the strongest and most solemn covenants to their servants , that they should take no presents from the ...
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... balances : for every man who had engaged in these transactions was a debtor to government , and the remission of that - debt depended upon the discretion of the Governor- General . 16 IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS .
... balances : for every man who had engaged in these transactions was a debtor to government , and the remission of that - debt depended upon the discretion of the Governor- General . 16 IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS .
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... of Mr. Hastings constantly was visible to the world in every part of these transactions . With the other gentlemen , who were visible too , I have at present no dealing . Mr. Hastings , SPEECH IN OPENING . THIRD DAY . 23.
... of Mr. Hastings constantly was visible to the world in every part of these transactions . With the other gentlemen , who were visible too , I have at present no dealing . Mr. Hastings , SPEECH IN OPENING . THIRD DAY . 23.
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... transactions . He was therefore perfectly competent to it . Mr. Hastings has cleared his character ; for though it is true , in the contradic- tions in which Mr. Hastings has entangled himself , he has abused and insulted him , and ...
... transactions . He was therefore perfectly competent to it . Mr. Hastings has cleared his character ; for though it is true , in the contradic- tions in which Mr. Hastings has entangled himself , he has abused and insulted him , and ...
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... transactions . You will find , what is very odd , that in this trial for forgery with which this man stood charged , forgery in a private transaction , all the persons who were witnesses or parties to it had been , before or since , the ...
... transactions . You will find , what is very odd , that in this trial for forgery with which this man stood charged , forgery in a private transaction , all the persons who were witnesses or parties to it had been , before or since , the ...
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