The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 15C. and J. Rivington, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... Benares and the Begums , show the effects of his open violence and injustice : the other two expose the prin- ciples of pecuniary corruption , upon which the Prisoner proceeded ciples OF WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 9 has been brought ...
... Benares and the Begums , show the effects of his open violence and injustice : the other two expose the prin- ciples of pecuniary corruption , upon which the Prisoner proceeded ciples OF WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 9 has been brought ...
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... Benares and of Oude . We know , and there- fore do not want to learn , how to comport our- selves in prosecuting the haughty and overgrown delinquents of the East . We cannot require to be instructed by them , in what words we shall ...
... Benares and of Oude . We know , and there- fore do not want to learn , how to comport our- selves in prosecuting the haughty and overgrown delinquents of the East . We cannot require to be instructed by them , in what words we shall ...
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... Benares , as ceded to " us by the Vizier , have any rights whatever an- " nexed to it , ( and be not a mere empty word " without meaning ) those rights must be such as are held , countenanced , and established by the 66 66 66 66 law ...
... Benares , as ceded to " us by the Vizier , have any rights whatever an- " nexed to it , ( and be not a mere empty word " without meaning ) those rights must be such as are held , countenanced , and established by the 66 66 66 66 law ...
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... Benares , which was held up as an acquisition " almost obtruded on the Company against my " consent and opinion , ( for I acknowledge , " that even then I foresaw many difficulties " and inconveniences in its future exercise ; ) " I ...
... Benares , which was held up as an acquisition " almost obtruded on the Company against my " consent and opinion , ( for I acknowledge , " that even then I foresaw many difficulties " and inconveniences in its future exercise ; ) " I ...
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... Benares ; but he was a subordinate sovereign dependent upon a superior , according to the tenor of his compact , expressed or implied . Now having contended , as we still contend , that the law of nations is the law of India as well as ...
... Benares ; but he was a subordinate sovereign dependent upon a superior , according to the tenor of his compact , expressed or implied . Now having contended , as we still contend , that the law of nations is the law of India as well as ...
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