The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 15C. and J. Rivington, 1827 - Great Britain |
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Page 21
... Oude . We know , and there- fore do not want to learn , how to comport our- selves in prosecuting the haughty and overgrown delinquents of the East . We cannot require to be instructed by them , in what words we shall express just ...
... Oude . We know , and there- fore do not want to learn , how to comport our- selves in prosecuting the haughty and overgrown delinquents of the East . We cannot require to be instructed by them , in what words we shall express just ...
Page 83
... Oude or of any other province ; not the general practice of a respect- able Emperour like Akbar , which , if it would not fatigue your Lordships , I could shew to be the very reverse of this man's . No , my Lords , the Prisoner , his ...
... Oude or of any other province ; not the general practice of a respect- able Emperour like Akbar , which , if it would not fatigue your Lordships , I could shew to be the very reverse of this man's . No , my Lords , the Prisoner , his ...
Page 116
... Oude , this man was an actual prisoner of Mr. Hastings , and nothing else ; a mere vas- sal , as he says himself , in effect and substance , though not in name . Can any one believe or think , that Mr. Hastings would not have received ...
... Oude , this man was an actual prisoner of Mr. Hastings , and nothing else ; a mere vas- sal , as he says himself , in effect and substance , though not in name . Can any one believe or think , that Mr. Hastings would not have received ...
Page 134
... Oude . " If , " says Mr. Hastings , " I ever talked " of selling the Company's sovereignty over " Benares to the Nabob of Oude , it was but in " terrorem ; and no subsequent act of mine war- " rants the supposition of my having ...
... Oude . " If , " says Mr. Hastings , " I ever talked " of selling the Company's sovereignty over " Benares to the Nabob of Oude , it was but in " terrorem ; and no subsequent act of mine war- " rants the supposition of my having ...
Page 144
... Oude , it was only in terrorem . ” the face of this assertion , he here gives you to understand , he never held out any thing in terrorem , but what he intended to execute . But we will shew you , that in fact he had re- served to ...
... Oude , it was only in terrorem . ” the face of this assertion , he here gives you to understand , he never held out any thing in terrorem , but what he intended to execute . But we will shew you , that in fact he had re- served to ...
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