The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 12Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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... persons who are the objects of it : these are clear , irrefragable , and eternal principles . But if , instead of exacting a part by a proportionable rate , the prince should go further and attempt to shake the whole mass of property ...
... persons who are the objects of it : these are clear , irrefragable , and eternal principles . But if , instead of exacting a part by a proportionable rate , the prince should go further and attempt to shake the whole mass of property ...
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... persons losing their estates , who had the security of our guaranty . Your Lordships know that Mr. Hastings , by his guaranty , had secured their jaghires to the Nabob's own relations and family . One would have imagined , that , if the ...
... persons losing their estates , who had the security of our guaranty . Your Lordships know that Mr. Hastings , by his guaranty , had secured their jaghires to the Nabob's own relations and family . One would have imagined , that , if the ...
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... persons so called , sub- servient to his debaucheries , were persons whom he wished to spare . " Now I am to show you that this man , whatever faults he may have in his private mor- als , ( with which we have nothing at all to do ...
... persons so called , sub- servient to his debaucheries , were persons whom he wished to spare . " Now I am to show you that this man , whatever faults he may have in his private mor- als , ( with which we have nothing at all to do ...
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... persons who had jaghires , would , if left to his own discretion , have confiscated those only of the deserving ; while Mr. Hastings , to effect the inclusion of the worthless in the confiscation , confiscates the jaghires of the inno ...
... persons who had jaghires , would , if left to his own discretion , have confiscated those only of the deserving ; while Mr. Hastings , to effect the inclusion of the worthless in the confiscation , confiscates the jaghires of the inno ...
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... persons I have men- tioned . The prisoner himself has called Mr. Wombwell to prove the names of those infamous persons with a partiality for whom Mr. Hastings has aspersed the Nabob , in order to lay the ground for the destruction of ...
... persons I have men- tioned . The prisoner himself has called Mr. Wombwell to prove the names of those infamous persons with a partiality for whom Mr. Hastings has aspersed the Nabob , in order to lay the ground for the destruction of ...
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