The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 16C. and J. Rivington, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... Nabob . Now we had before proved to you , from evidence adduced by the Prisoner himself , that this Nabob was a mere tool in his hands ; and therefore if this pretence be true , it aggra- vates his guilt ; for surely the forcing a son ...
... Nabob . Now we had before proved to you , from evidence adduced by the Prisoner himself , that this Nabob was a mere tool in his hands ; and therefore if this pretence be true , it aggra- vates his guilt ; for surely the forcing a son ...
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... Nabob's pensioners , a monopo- lizer of trade in the country , and a person who received much the major part of his emoluments from the Nabob's hands . In that clandestine manner , in the Nabob's own house , in his own capital city , in ...
... Nabob's pensioners , a monopo- lizer of trade in the country , and a person who received much the major part of his emoluments from the Nabob's hands . In that clandestine manner , in the Nabob's own house , in his own capital city , in ...
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... Nabob's government , and whose pillage and peculations had raised a revolt of the whole kingdom against themselves . These persons are here brought in a mass to clear them- selves of this charge , by criminating other per- sons , and ...
... Nabob's government , and whose pillage and peculations had raised a revolt of the whole kingdom against themselves . These persons are here brought in a mass to clear them- selves of this charge , by criminating other per- sons , and ...
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... Nabob ; the word Begum is never mentioned in the crimination but in conjunction with his , and much the greater part of it criminates the Nabob himself . Now , my Lords , I will say , that the matter of these affidavits , forgetting who ...
... Nabob ; the word Begum is never mentioned in the crimination but in conjunction with his , and much the greater part of it criminates the Nabob himself . Now , my Lords , I will say , that the matter of these affidavits , forgetting who ...
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... Nabob himself was at the bottom of it ; and that he joined with his bro- ther and his mother to extirpate out of his domi- nions that horrible grievance , the English bri- gade officers ; -those English officers who were the farmers ...
... Nabob himself was at the bottom of it ; and that he joined with his bro- ther and his mother to extirpate out of his domi- nions that horrible grievance , the English bri- gade officers ; -those English officers who were the farmers ...
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