The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 12Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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Page 4
... hope there is nothing in it that may to you appear too pointed . If you wish the matter to be otherwise un- derstood than I have taken up and stated it , I need not say I shall be ready to conform to whatever you may prescribe , and to ...
... hope there is nothing in it that may to you appear too pointed . If you wish the matter to be otherwise un- derstood than I have taken up and stated it , I need not say I shall be ready to conform to whatever you may prescribe , and to ...
Page 19
... hope that he would be prevailed upon to make that his own act , which nothing but the most urgent necessity could force me to make mine . He left me without any reply , but afterwards sent for his minister , and au- thorized him to give ...
... hope that he would be prevailed upon to make that his own act , which nothing but the most urgent necessity could force me to make mine . He left me without any reply , but afterwards sent for his minister , and au- thorized him to give ...
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... hope I need not use any farther proof that the Nabob was in effect non - existent in the country , ) treated all the landed property . The next question will be , How -― - has he treated whatever moneyed property was left 30 IMPEACHMENT ...
... hope I need not use any farther proof that the Nabob was in effect non - existent in the country , ) treated all the landed property . The next question will be , How -― - has he treated whatever moneyed property was left 30 IMPEACHMENT ...
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... hope this last and ultimate shame will be spared us : for I declare to God , that the defence , and the principles of it , ap- pear to me ten thousand times worse than the act itself . Now , my Lords , this criminal , through his coun ...
... hope this last and ultimate shame will be spared us : for I declare to God , that the defence , and the principles of it , ap- pear to me ten thousand times worse than the act itself . Now , my Lords , this criminal , through his coun ...
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... hope for your approbation of what I did . I must also observe , that no further rigor than that which I exerted could have been used against females in this country , to whom there can be no access . The Nabob and Salar Jung were the ...
... hope for your approbation of what I did . I must also observe , that no further rigor than that which I exerted could have been used against females in this country , to whom there can be no access . The Nabob and Salar Jung were the ...
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