The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... distress- es which we have stated , and which Mr. Hastings has not only fully admitted , but has himself proved in ... distressing to the Nabob , so ruinous . to his affairs , and so disgraceful to our government , were not only not ...
... distress- es which we have stated , and which Mr. Hastings has not only fully admitted , but has himself proved in ... distressing to the Nabob , so ruinous . to his affairs , and so disgraceful to our government , were not only not ...
Page 125
... distress . " In consequence of the foregoing opinion from Mr. Macpherson , the following minute was delivered by the Governor - General . " I should gladly acquiesce in the motion made by Mr. Macpherson , if I thought it possible to ...
... distress . " In consequence of the foregoing opinion from Mr. Macpherson , the following minute was delivered by the Governor - General . " I should gladly acquiesce in the motion made by Mr. Macpherson , if I thought it possible to ...
Page 143
... distress . I have now to call your attention to his treatment of another branch of this miserable family , — the women and children of the late Nabob Sujah ul Dowlah . These persons were dependent upon the Begums , and by the ...
... distress . I have now to call your attention to his treatment of another branch of this miserable family , — the women and children of the late Nabob Sujah ul Dowlah . These persons were dependent upon the Begums , and by the ...
Page 147
... distress transacted the business . But I could not take care of my dependants : so that some of my brothers , from their difficulties , arose and departed ; and the people of the Khord Mohul of the late Na- bob , who are all my mothers ...
... distress transacted the business . But I could not take care of my dependants : so that some of my brothers , from their difficulties , arose and departed ; and the people of the Khord Mohul of the late Na- bob , who are all my mothers ...
Page 150
... distress , they naturally excite in the mind a greater degree of compassion by comparing the circumstances in which they once stood with those into which they are fallen : for famine , degra- dation , and oppression were famine ...
... distress , they naturally excite in the mind a greater degree of compassion by comparing the circumstances in which they once stood with those into which they are fallen : for famine , degra- dation , and oppression were famine ...
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