The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 9Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 8
... known that the fort was well provided for de- fence were likely to encourage an enemy to attack it . That in August , 1779 , in defiance of the principle laid down by himself for preferring an agency to a contract , the said Warren ...
... known that the fort was well provided for de- fence were likely to encourage an enemy to attack it . That in August , 1779 , in defiance of the principle laid down by himself for preferring an agency to a contract , the said Warren ...
Page 31
... known to the Court of Directors from whom or on what account he received that mon- ey , as it was his duty to have done in the first in- stance , and notwithstanding the said Directors sig- nified to him their expectation that he should ...
... known to the Court of Directors from whom or on what account he received that mon- ey , as it was his duty to have done in the first in- stance , and notwithstanding the said Directors sig- nified to him their expectation that he should ...
Page 59
... on any matter of importance , and by thus subjecting the communication of persons abroad with those at home to difficulties not known before . X. - SURGEON - GENERAL'S CONTRACT . --- THAT the AGAINST WARREN HASTINGS . 59.
... on any matter of importance , and by thus subjecting the communication of persons abroad with those at home to difficulties not known before . X. - SURGEON - GENERAL'S CONTRACT . --- THAT the AGAINST WARREN HASTINGS . 59.
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... known at Madras on the 31st of the preceding January , did recommend the said Suli- van to be ambassador at the court of Nizam Ali Khân , Subahdar of the Deccan , in defiance of the authority and orders of the Court of Directors . That ...
... known at Madras on the 31st of the preceding January , did recommend the said Suli- van to be ambassador at the court of Nizam Ali Khân , Subahdar of the Deccan , in defiance of the authority and orders of the Court of Directors . That ...
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... known to Col- onel Muir before the conclusion of the treaty he en- tered into with Mahdajee Sindia ; and therefore , what- ever suspicions may have been entertained or what- ever degree of criminality may have been proved against the ...
... known to Col- onel Muir before the conclusion of the treaty he en- tered into with Mahdajee Sindia ; and therefore , what- ever suspicions may have been entertained or what- ever degree of criminality may have been proved against the ...
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