The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 12Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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... oppression committed by Mr. Hastings through his two miserable instruments : the one , his passive instrument , the Nabob ; the other , Mr. Mid- dleton , his active instrument , in his subsequent plans for the entire destruction of that ...
... oppression committed by Mr. Hastings through his two miserable instruments : the one , his passive instrument , the Nabob ; the other , Mr. Mid- dleton , his active instrument , in his subsequent plans for the entire destruction of that ...
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... oppressive , cruel , and wicked in the highest degree . Yet this . is what Mr. Hastings projected , and actually did accomplish . My Lords , at the treaty of Chunar , as it is called , Mr. Hastings ( for he always artfully feels his way ...
... oppressive , cruel , and wicked in the highest degree . Yet this . is what Mr. Hastings projected , and actually did accomplish . My Lords , at the treaty of Chunar , as it is called , Mr. Hastings ( for he always artfully feels his way ...
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... oppression doubly aggravated by its coming from such a man as Mr. Hastings , and by its being enforced by such a man as Mr. Middleton . And here I must press one observation upon your Lordships : I do not know a greater insult that can ...
... oppression doubly aggravated by its coming from such a man as Mr. Hastings , and by its being enforced by such a man as Mr. Middleton . And here I must press one observation upon your Lordships : I do not know a greater insult that can ...
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... to have left these estates in the hands of their owners , and to have oppressed them in some moderate , decent way ? Might they not have left the jaghiredars to raise the sums required by some SPEECH IN REPLY . 25 - FIFTH DAY .
... to have left these estates in the hands of their owners , and to have oppressed them in some moderate , decent way ? Might they not have left the jaghiredars to raise the sums required by some SPEECH IN REPLY . 25 - FIFTH DAY .
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... oppression , they put these eunuchs in- to prison , without food and water , and loaded their limbs with fetters ... oppress , to work upon these men by torture and by the fear of torture , till at last , having found that all their ...
... oppression , they put these eunuchs in- to prison , without food and water , and loaded their limbs with fetters ... oppress , to work upon these men by torture and by the fear of torture , till at last , having found that all their ...
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