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Page 17
When , therefore , we found , that our inquiries and our reports , our laws and our
admonitions , were alike despised ; that enormities increased in proportion as
they were forbidden , detected , and exposed ; when we found , that guilt stalked
...
When , therefore , we found , that our inquiries and our reports , our laws and our
admonitions , were alike despised ; that enormities increased in proportion as
they were forbidden , detected , and exposed ; when we found , that guilt stalked
...
Page 31
It will be a great part of your inquiry , when we come before your lordships to
substantiate evidence against Mr. Hastings , to discover how that order came to
be so completely broken down and erased , that scarce a trace of it , for any good
...
It will be a great part of your inquiry , when we come before your lordships to
substantiate evidence against Mr. Hastings , to discover how that order came to
be so completely broken down and erased , that scarce a trace of it , for any good
...
Page 38
... to that specifick bribery , corruption , or malversation ; his way has been to call
on the court of directors to inquire of every servant , who comes to Europe , and to
say , whether there was any one man in it , that will give him an ill word . He has ...
... to that specifick bribery , corruption , or malversation ; his way has been to call
on the court of directors to inquire of every servant , who comes to Europe , and to
say , whether there was any one man in it , that will give him an ill word . He has ...
Page 57
They established , very early , Mahomedan sovereigns in all parts of it ;
particularly in the kingdom of Bengal , which is the principal object of our present
inquiry . They held that kingdom , for a long series of years , under a dynasty of
thirtythree ...
They established , very early , Mahomedan sovereigns in all parts of it ;
particularly in the kingdom of Bengal , which is the principal object of our present
inquiry . They held that kingdom , for a long series of years , under a dynasty of
thirtythree ...
Page 73
... of this series for the gratification of historical curiosity , the contexture is
necessary to demonstrate to your lordships the spirit of our Bengal politicks , and
the necessity of some other sort of judicial inquiries than those , which that
government ...
... of this series for the gratification of historical curiosity , the contexture is
necessary to demonstrate to your lordships the spirit of our Bengal politicks , and
the necessity of some other sort of judicial inquiries than those , which that
government ...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Wells and Lilly, 1827 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Nov 2008 |
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