The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... ladies with gold for their persons , he comes to their persons for their gold . This impetuous lover , Mr. Hastings , who is not to be stayed from the objects of his passion , would annihilate space and time between him and his beloved ...
... ladies with gold for their persons , he comes to their persons for their gold . This impetuous lover , Mr. Hastings , who is not to be stayed from the objects of his passion , would annihilate space and time between him and his beloved ...
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... ladies had actually taken up arms to cut the Nabob's throat , it would require no person to come from the dead to prove to us that the Nabob , but not Mr. Hastings , had a right , for his own secu- rity and for his own indemnification ...
... ladies had actually taken up arms to cut the Nabob's throat , it would require no person to come from the dead to prove to us that the Nabob , but not Mr. Hastings , had a right , for his own secu- rity and for his own indemnification ...
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... ladies , according to the Mahometan law , you have nothing laid before you by the prisoner's counsel but a quotation cut out with the scissors from a Mahome- tan law - book , ( which I suspect very much the learned gentlemen have never ...
... ladies , according to the Mahometan law , you have nothing laid before you by the prisoner's counsel but a quotation cut out with the scissors from a Mahome- tan law - book , ( which I suspect very much the learned gentlemen have never ...
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... goods of the Begums at Fyzabad , nine thousand miles from you , and fourteen years after tries the title in an English court , without having one person to appear for these miserable ladies . I trust you SPEECH IN REPLY . FIFTH DAY . 39.
... goods of the Begums at Fyzabad , nine thousand miles from you , and fourteen years after tries the title in an English court , without having one person to appear for these miserable ladies . I trust you SPEECH IN REPLY . FIFTH DAY . 39.
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Edmund Burke. to appear for these miserable ladies . I trust you will not suffer this mockery ; I hope this last and ultimate shame will be spared us : for I declare to God , that the defence , and the principles of it , ap- pear to me ...
Edmund Burke. to appear for these miserable ladies . I trust you will not suffer this mockery ; I hope this last and ultimate shame will be spared us : for I declare to God , that the defence , and the principles of it , ap- pear to me ...
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