The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Page 19
... authority with which I consider your in- structions to vest me . I therefore declared to the Nabob , in presence of the minister and Mr. Johnson , who I desired might bear witness of the conversation , that I construed his rejection of ...
... authority with which I consider your in- structions to vest me . I therefore declared to the Nabob , in presence of the minister and Mr. Johnson , who I desired might bear witness of the conversation , that I construed his rejection of ...
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... authority in the exe- cution of these acts of violence against his own fam- ily and his subjects . You see him struggling against this violent prostitution of his authority . He refuses the sanction of his name , which before he had ...
... authority in the exe- cution of these acts of violence against his own fam- ily and his subjects . You see him struggling against this violent prostitution of his authority . He refuses the sanction of his name , which before he had ...
Page 59
... authority of the Nabob , who , instead of consent- ing to moderate the rigors of their situation , would be most willing to multiply them . ( Signed ) " NATHANIEL MIDDLETON . " I will now call your Lordships ' attention to other letters ...
... authority of the Nabob , who , instead of consent- ing to moderate the rigors of their situation , would be most willing to multiply them . ( Signed ) " NATHANIEL MIDDLETON . " I will now call your Lordships ' attention to other letters ...
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... authority , — headed by Colonel Hannay , -headed by Captain Gordon , - headed by all those abomina- ble persons exercising , under the Nabob's name , an authority destructive to himself and his subjects . Against them there was a ...
... authority , — headed by Colonel Hannay , -headed by Captain Gordon , - headed by all those abomina- ble persons exercising , under the Nabob's name , an authority destructive to himself and his subjects . Against them there was a ...
Page 72
... authority and the destroyers of his country . With this , as a rebellion , Mr. Hastings has charged these women ; he has charged them with a war against their son , for the purpose of extermi- nating the English . Look , I pray you , at ...
... authority and the destroyers of his country . With this , as a rebellion , Mr. Hastings has charged these women ; he has charged them with a war against their son , for the purpose of extermi- nating the English . Look , I pray you , at ...
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