The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... affairs . These pensioners Mr. Hastings engaged to recall ; but he never did recall them . We refer your Lordships to the evidence before you , in proof that these odious pensioners , so distressing to the Nabob , so ruinous . to his ...
... affairs . These pensioners Mr. Hastings engaged to recall ; but he never did recall them . We refer your Lordships to the evidence before you , in proof that these odious pensioners , so distressing to the Nabob , so ruinous . to his ...
Page 7
... affairs , and a rational and equal assessment upon his subjects , in order to furnish the amount of the demand which he was about to make upon him . I need not tell your Lordships , trained and formed as your minds are to the rules and ...
... affairs , and a rational and equal assessment upon his subjects , in order to furnish the amount of the demand which he was about to make upon him . I need not tell your Lordships , trained and formed as your minds are to the rules and ...
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... affair , where do we find that he entered this claim , as the foundation of it ? Upon one occasion only , when dragged to join in this wicked act , something dropped from his lips which seemed rather to have been forced into his mouth ...
... affair , where do we find that he entered this claim , as the foundation of it ? Upon one occasion only , when dragged to join in this wicked act , something dropped from his lips which seemed rather to have been forced into his mouth ...
Page 86
... affairs there is the possibility of truth in this . It is possible she might wish to depose her legitimate son , her only legitimate son , and to depose him for the sake of a bastard son of her husband's , to exalt him at the expense of ...
... affairs there is the possibility of truth in this . It is possible she might wish to depose her legitimate son , her only legitimate son , and to depose him for the sake of a bastard son of her husband's , to exalt him at the expense of ...
Page 93
... affairs here is thus . On the 27th Zehedja , Asoph ul Dowlah Bahadur , without my knowledge , sent his own aumils into my jaghires . I accordingly wrote several times to Mr. Middleton on this business : that his seal was to the treaty ...
... affairs here is thus . On the 27th Zehedja , Asoph ul Dowlah Bahadur , without my knowledge , sent his own aumils into my jaghires . I accordingly wrote several times to Mr. Middleton on this business : that his seal was to the treaty ...
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