The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... conducting it . My Lords , on that comparison , they are very appre- hensive , that , if I should go very largely into a pre- liminary explanation of the several matters in charge , it might be to the prejudice of an early trial of the ...
... conducting it . My Lords , on that comparison , they are very appre- hensive , that , if I should go very largely into a pre- liminary explanation of the several matters in charge , it might be to the prejudice of an early trial of the ...
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... conduct in India , and upon which he grounds his de- fence . These may all be reduced to one short word , ― arbitrary power . My Lords , if Mr. Hastings had contended , as other men have often done , that the system of government which ...
... conduct in India , and upon which he grounds his de- fence . These may all be reduced to one short word , ― arbitrary power . My Lords , if Mr. Hastings had contended , as other men have often done , that the system of government which ...
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... conduct upon the necessi- ties of that system . These are things which are new in the world ; for there never was a man , I be- lieve , who contended for arbitrary power , ( and there have been persons wicked and foolish enough to con ...
... conduct upon the necessi- ties of that system . These are things which are new in the world ; for there never was a man , I be- lieve , who contended for arbitrary power , ( and there have been persons wicked and foolish enough to con ...
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... conduct of other men , so far as they had anything to do with appointing them , or holding them in their places , or having any sort of inspection into their conduct . But when a Governor presumes to remove from their situations those ...
... conduct of other men , so far as they had anything to do with appointing them , or holding them in their places , or having any sort of inspection into their conduct . But when a Governor presumes to remove from their situations those ...
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... as an article of charge . I only mention it now as an exemplification of the great principle of corruption which guided Mr. Hastings's conduct . When the ancient nobility , the great princes , ( SPEECH IN OPENING . 15 THIRD DAY .
... as an article of charge . I only mention it now as an exemplification of the great principle of corruption which guided Mr. Hastings's conduct . When the ancient nobility , the great princes , ( SPEECH IN OPENING . 15 THIRD DAY .
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