The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... manner in which facts are represented , and whose subsequent conduct is to be justified by such representations , is not sim- ply accountable for his conduct ; he is accountable for culpably attempting to form , on false premises , the ...
... manner in which facts are represented , and whose subsequent conduct is to be justified by such representations , is not sim- ply accountable for his conduct ; he is accountable for culpably attempting to form , on false premises , the ...
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... manner to your Lordships . The first was by taking away that wicked rabble , the Brit- ish troops , represented by Mr. Hastings as totally ruinous to the Nabob's affairs , and particularly by removing that part of them which was called ...
... manner to your Lordships . The first was by taking away that wicked rabble , the Brit- ish troops , represented by Mr. Hastings as totally ruinous to the Nabob's affairs , and particularly by removing that part of them which was called ...
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... manner . Of the 285,0002 . a year which was to be confiscated , the old grants of Sujah Dowlah , [ and ? ] the grandfather of the Nabob , amounted to near two thirds of the whole , as you will find in the paper to which we refer you ...
... manner . Of the 285,0002 . a year which was to be confiscated , the old grants of Sujah Dowlah , [ and ? ] the grandfather of the Nabob , amounted to near two thirds of the whole , as you will find in the paper to which we refer you ...
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... manner ; he begs , he prays , he dissembles , he delays . One day he pretends to be willing to submit , the next he hangs back , just as the violence of Mr. Hastings or his own natural feelings and principles of justice dragged him one ...
... manner ; he begs , he prays , he dissembles , he delays . One day he pretends to be willing to submit , the next he hangs back , just as the violence of Mr. Hastings or his own natural feelings and principles of justice dragged him one ...
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Edmund Burke. gling Nabob to consent in the manner we have de scribed . I shall now read to your Lordships Mr. Middleton's letters , that you may hear these men with their own mouths describing their own acts , and that your Lord ships ...
Edmund Burke. gling Nabob to consent in the manner we have de scribed . I shall now read to your Lordships Mr. Middleton's letters , that you may hear these men with their own mouths describing their own acts , and that your Lord ships ...
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