The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 12Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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... proceedings there , and that all his acts were so dictated , and consequently must be so construed . I shall now proceed to lay before your Lordships the acts of oppression committed by Mr. Hastings through his two miserable instruments ...
... proceedings there , and that all his acts were so dictated , and consequently must be so construed . I shall now proceed to lay before your Lordships the acts of oppression committed by Mr. Hastings through his two miserable instruments ...
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... proceedings . But , my Lords , he shall not escape so . It is in your minutes , that so far was the Nabob from wishing to save the new exceptionable grants , that , at the time of the forced loan I have mentioned , and also when the ...
... proceedings . But , my Lords , he shall not escape so . It is in your minutes , that so far was the Nabob from wishing to save the new exceptionable grants , that , at the time of the forced loan I have mentioned , and also when the ...
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... proceedings . " Lucknow , the 6th of Dec. , 1781 . " Finding the Nabob wavering in his determination about the resumption of the jaghires , I this day , in presence of , and with the minister's concurrence , ordered the necessary ...
... proceedings . " Lucknow , the 6th of Dec. , 1781 . " Finding the Nabob wavering in his determination about the resumption of the jaghires , I this day , in presence of , and with the minister's concurrence , ordered the necessary ...
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... proceedings , you will sanc- tion the greatest wrongs that have been ever known in history . But to proceed . The next thing to be asked is , Were the promised pensions given to the jaghiredars ? I suppose your Lordships are not idle ...
... proceedings , you will sanc- tion the greatest wrongs that have been ever known in history . But to proceed . The next thing to be asked is , Were the promised pensions given to the jaghiredars ? I suppose your Lordships are not idle ...
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... proceeding of his own : he first seizes upon the property , and then produces some Mahometan writers to prove that it did not belong to the persons who were in possession of it . You would naturally expect , that , when he was going to ...
... proceeding of his own : he first seizes upon the property , and then produces some Mahometan writers to prove that it did not belong to the persons who were in possession of it . You would naturally expect , that , when he was going to ...
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