The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... Company , - yet , in fact , this business of balances is that nidus in which have been nustled and bred and born all the corruptions of India , first by making extravagant demands , and afterwards by making corrupt relaxations of them ...
... Company , - yet , in fact , this business of balances is that nidus in which have been nustled and bred and born all the corruptions of India , first by making extravagant demands , and afterwards by making corrupt relaxations of them ...
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... Company . The Governor - General and Council made an ostensible order by which no collector , or person concerned in the revenue , should have any connection with these farms . This order did not include the Governor - General in the ...
... Company . The Governor - General and Council made an ostensible order by which no collector , or person concerned in the revenue , should have any connection with these farms . This order did not include the Governor - General in the ...
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... Company . Mr. Hastings then broke up the Council , — I will not say whether legally or illegally . The Company's law counsel thought he might legally do it ; but he corruptly did it , and left mankind no room to judge but that it was ...
... Company . Mr. Hastings then broke up the Council , — I will not say whether legally or illegally . The Company's law counsel thought he might legally do it ; but he corruptly did it , and left mankind no room to judge but that it was ...
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... Company was invested with a fiction of property in all such bribes , in order to drag them with more facility out of ... Company's service in any way the briber should think fit , and that on many occasions this would prove the best ...
... Company was invested with a fiction of property in all such bribes , in order to drag them with more facility out of ... Company's service in any way the briber should think fit , and that on many occasions this would prove the best ...
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... Company's records , and to state yourself a lender to the Company , when in reality you were their debtor ? " His answer was , " I really cannot tell ; I have forgot my reasons ; the distance of time is so great , " ( name- ly , a time ...
... Company's records , and to state yourself a lender to the Company , when in reality you were their debtor ? " His answer was , " I really cannot tell ; I have forgot my reasons ; the distance of time is so great , " ( name- ly , a time ...
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