The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 12Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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... Lordships is that the treaty is declared to have for its objects two modes of reliev- ing the Nabob from his distresses , - from distress- es which we have stated , and which Mr. Hastings has not only fully admitted , but has himself ...
... Lordships is that the treaty is declared to have for its objects two modes of reliev- ing the Nabob from his distresses , - from distress- es which we have stated , and which Mr. Hastings has not only fully admitted , but has himself ...
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... Lordships ) were guarantied by the Company . The jaghires of his own house , of his mother and grandmother , were guarantied by us . I must inform your Lordships , that , upon some of our other exactions at an earlier period , the Nabob ...
... Lordships ) were guarantied by the Company . The jaghires of his own house , of his mother and grandmother , were guarantied by us . I must inform your Lordships , that , upon some of our other exactions at an earlier period , the Nabob ...
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... Lordships ( and in this we have followed the example of Mr. Hastings ) that some of them are fees granted actually in perpetui- ty ; and in fact many of them are so granted . We are farther to tell your Lordships , that by the custom of ...
... Lordships ( and in this we have followed the example of Mr. Hastings ) that some of them are fees granted actually in perpetui- ty ; and in fact many of them are so granted . We are farther to tell your Lordships , that by the custom of ...
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... Lordships , if you were to acquit this man , would strike against your own dignity , and the very being of the society in which we live . Your Lordships will find in your printed Minutes who the jaghiredars were , and what was the ...
... Lordships , if you were to acquit this man , would strike against your own dignity , and the very being of the society in which we live . Your Lordships will find in your printed Minutes who the jaghiredars were , and what was the ...
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... Lordships , therefore , will not wonder that this miserable man should have sunk into despair , and that he should have felt the weight of his oppression doubly aggravated by its coming from such a man as Mr. Hastings , and by its being ...
... Lordships , therefore , will not wonder that this miserable man should have sunk into despair , and that he should have felt the weight of his oppression doubly aggravated by its coming from such a man as Mr. Hastings , and by its being ...
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