The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 12Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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Page 78
... corruption , peculation , and bribery are crimes so secret in their nature that we can hardly ever get to the proof of them without the assistance of rules , orders , and regulations of a posi- tive nature , intended to prevent the ...
... corruption , peculation , and bribery are crimes so secret in their nature that we can hardly ever get to the proof of them without the assistance of rules , orders , and regulations of a posi- tive nature , intended to prevent the ...
Page 82
... corrupt coali- tion with violence , robbery , and wrong , then all hope is gone ; and then it is not only private persons that suffer , but the law itself , when so corrupted , is often perverted into the worst instrument of fraud and ...
... corrupt coali- tion with violence , robbery , and wrong , then all hope is gone ; and then it is not only private persons that suffer , but the law itself , when so corrupted , is often perverted into the worst instrument of fraud and ...
Page 88
... corruption , and peculation , and that a worse air for the lungs of a chief - justice could not be found in the world . If his lungs wanted the benefit of pure air , he would even have put himself in the focus of a rebellion , to have ...
... corruption , and peculation , and that a worse air for the lungs of a chief - justice could not be found in the world . If his lungs wanted the benefit of pure air , he would even have put himself in the focus of a rebellion , to have ...
Page 174
... corruption , or of any misconduct whatsoever , in the matters aforesaid . ' Continuation of the charge : - " That some time in or about the month of De- cember , 1783 , the Nabob Bahadur , another of the brothers of the said Nabob of ...
... corruption , or of any misconduct whatsoever , in the matters aforesaid . ' Continuation of the charge : - " That some time in or about the month of De- cember , 1783 , the Nabob Bahadur , another of the brothers of the said Nabob of ...
Page 196
... corruption , to no other will they be applied . If new demands are raised on the Nabob Vizier , and accounts overcharged on one side with a wide lati- tude taken on the other to swell his debt beyond the means of payment , if political ...
... corruption , to no other will they be applied . If new demands are raised on the Nabob Vizier , and accounts overcharged on one side with a wide lati- tude taken on the other to swell his debt beyond the means of payment , if political ...
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