The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 10J. C. Nimmo, 1887 - Great Britain |
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Page 355
... fraud , but the deposit was a fraud , and that neither bonds nor deposit did in reality belong to him . Why did he enter it at all ? Then , afterwards , why did he not enter it as the Company's ? Why make a false entry , to enter it as ...
... fraud , but the deposit was a fraud , and that neither bonds nor deposit did in reality belong to him . Why did he enter it at all ? Then , afterwards , why did he not enter it as the Company's ? Why make a false entry , to enter it as ...
Page 364
... fraud , and prevarication appears in every part of this letter ! But admitting this letter to have been written up- on the 22d of May , and kept back to the 16th of December , you would imagine that during all that interval of time he ...
... fraud , and prevarication appears in every part of this letter ! But admitting this letter to have been written up- on the 22d of May , and kept back to the 16th of December , you would imagine that during all that interval of time he ...
Page 377
... fraud pursued through all its artifices ; and therefore , as it has been the most painful work to us to unravel fraud and prevarica- tion , so there is nothing that more calls for the at- tention , the patience , the vigilance , and the ...
... fraud pursued through all its artifices ; and therefore , as it has been the most painful work to us to unravel fraud and prevarica- tion , so there is nothing that more calls for the at- tention , the patience , the vigilance , and the ...
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