The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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Page 50
... bond , which is one of the chief instruments of society , and which , supporting the individual , connects the species , can have no existence with them - I mean the convivial bond . That race can be held to no other by that great link ...
... bond , which is one of the chief instruments of society , and which , supporting the individual , connects the species , can have no existence with them - I mean the convivial bond . That race can be held to no other by that great link ...
Page 52
... bonds to the rules of what , amongst them , is called his cast . It may be necessary just to state to your lordships ... bond is dissolved . to Few survive this most terrible of all calamities . To speak to an Indian of this cast is to ...
... bonds to the rules of what , amongst them , is called his cast . It may be necessary just to state to your lordships ... bond is dissolved . to Few survive this most terrible of all calamities . To speak to an Indian of this cast is to ...
Page 168
... bonds for them as money of his own , and bearing legal interest . This was his method of endeavouring to conceal some at least of his bribes ( for I would not suggest , nor have your lordships to think , that I believe , that these were ...
... bonds for them as money of his own , and bearing legal interest . This was his method of endeavouring to conceal some at least of his bribes ( for I would not suggest , nor have your lordships to think , that I believe , that these were ...
Page 175
... bonds for this money , if it was not your own ? How came you to vitiate and corrupt the state of the company's records , and to state yourself a lender to the company , when in reality you was their debtor ? His an- swer was , I really ...
... bonds for this money , if it was not your own ? How came you to vitiate and corrupt the state of the company's records , and to state yourself a lender to the company , when in reality you was their debtor ? His an- swer was , I really ...
Page 183
... bond to himself , on his own account , as for money lent to the company . For , upon the frequent , pressing , tender solicitations of the court of direc- tors , always insinuated to him in a very delicate manner , Mr. Hastings had ...
... bond to himself , on his own account , as for money lent to the company . For , upon the frequent , pressing , tender solicitations of the court of direc- tors , always insinuated to him in a very delicate manner , Mr. Hastings had ...
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