The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... Lordships must also by this time be perfectly satisfied was the case ) that this unfortunate Nabob had no will of his own , draws down his poor victim to Chunar by an order to attend the Governor - General . If the Nabob ever wrote to ...
... Lordships must also by this time be perfectly satisfied was the case ) that this unfortunate Nabob had no will of his own , draws down his poor victim to Chunar by an order to attend the Governor - General . If the Nabob ever wrote to ...
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... Lordships is that the treaty is declared to have for its objects two modes of reliev ing the Nabob from his distresses , - from distress- es which we have stated , and which Mr. Hastings has not only fully admitted , but has himself ...
... Lordships is that the treaty is declared to have for its objects two modes of reliev ing the Nabob from his distresses , - from distress- es which we have stated , and which Mr. Hastings has not only fully admitted , but has himself ...
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... Lordships will remember , had departed from Benares , frustrated in his designs of extorting 500,000l . from the Rajah for the Com- pany's use . He had ravaged the country , without obtaining any benefit for his masters : the British ...
... Lordships will remember , had departed from Benares , frustrated in his designs of extorting 500,000l . from the Rajah for the Com- pany's use . He had ravaged the country , without obtaining any benefit for his masters : the British ...
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... Lordships ) were guarantied by the Company . The jaghires of his own house , of his mother and grandmother , were guarantied by us . I must inform your Lordships , that , upon some of our other exactions at an earlier period , the Nabob ...
... Lordships ) were guarantied by the Company . The jaghires of his own house , of his mother and grandmother , were guarantied by us . I must inform your Lordships , that , upon some of our other exactions at an earlier period , the Nabob ...
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... Lordships ( and in this we have followed the example of Mr. Hastings ) that some of them are fees granted actually in perpetui- ty ; and in fact many of them are so granted . We are farther to tell your Lordships , that by the custom of ...
... Lordships ( and in this we have followed the example of Mr. Hastings ) that some of them are fees granted actually in perpetui- ty ; and in fact many of them are so granted . We are farther to tell your Lordships , that by the custom of ...
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