The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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Page 33
... head , we may easily judge how the members are to be coerced . Mr. Hastings , at the head of the service , with high legal emoluments , has fouled his hands and sullied his government with bribes . OF WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 33 33.
... head , we may easily judge how the members are to be coerced . Mr. Hastings , at the head of the service , with high legal emoluments , has fouled his hands and sullied his government with bribes . OF WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 33 33.
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Edmund Burke. fouled his hands and sullied his government with bribes . He has substituted oppression and tyranny in the place of legal government . With all that unbounded , licentious power , which he has assumed over the publick ...
Edmund Burke. fouled his hands and sullied his government with bribes . He has substituted oppression and tyranny in the place of legal government . With all that unbounded , licentious power , which he has assumed over the publick ...
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... bribes and corrupt presents from all parties in those changes ; the vitiating and maiming the company's records ; the suppression of publick correspon- dence ; corrupt combinations and conspiracies ; perfidy in negotiation established ...
... bribes and corrupt presents from all parties in those changes ; the vitiating and maiming the company's records ; the suppression of publick correspon- dence ; corrupt combinations and conspiracies ; perfidy in negotiation established ...
Page 93
... bribe to bribe , eagle to eagle ; but at length he was driven to the wall . Some received his money , but did him no service in return : others , more conscientious , refused to receive it : and in this battle of bribes he was ...
... bribe to bribe , eagle to eagle ; but at length he was driven to the wall . Some received his money , but did him no service in return : others , more conscientious , refused to receive it : and in this battle of bribes he was ...
Page 96
... disorders , that funda- mental abuse - presents : for the bribes , by which all these revolutions were bought , had not the name of conditions , stipu- lations , or rewards ; they even had the free 96 SPEECH IN THE IMPEACHMENT.
... disorders , that funda- mental abuse - presents : for the bribes , by which all these revolutions were bought , had not the name of conditions , stipu- lations , or rewards ; they even had the free 96 SPEECH IN THE IMPEACHMENT.
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