The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... crimes of the late Governor of Bengal , to show their mutual bear- ings , how they were mutually aided and grew and were formed out of each other . I proposed first of all to show your Lordships that they have their root in that which ...
... crimes of the late Governor of Bengal , to show their mutual bear- ings , how they were mutually aided and grew and were formed out of each other . I proposed first of all to show your Lordships that they have their root in that which ...
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... crimes , which make them frightful and odious ; but bribery , filthy hands , a chief governor of a great em- pire receiving bribes from poor , miserable , indigent people , this is what makes government itself base , contemptible , and ...
... crimes , which make them frightful and odious ; but bribery , filthy hands , a chief governor of a great em- pire receiving bribes from poor , miserable , indigent people , this is what makes government itself base , contemptible , and ...
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... crime a false , prevaricating mode of concealing it , and makes it much more mischievous by admitting others into the participation of it . Mr. Hastings has said , ( and it is one of the general complaints of Mr. Hastings , ) that he is ...
... crime a false , prevaricating mode of concealing it , and makes it much more mischievous by admitting others into the participation of it . Mr. Hastings has said , ( and it is one of the general complaints of Mr. Hastings , ) that he is ...
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... crime , a violation of the orders of the Court of Directors . He disobeyed those instructions ; and if it be only for disobedience , for rebellion against his masters , ( putting the corrupt motive out of the question , ) I charge him ...
... crime , a violation of the orders of the Court of Directors . He disobeyed those instructions ; and if it be only for disobedience , for rebellion against his masters , ( putting the corrupt motive out of the question , ) I charge him ...
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... crime . The first thing that strikes is , that visits from Mr. Hastings are pretty severe things , and hospitality at Moorshedabad is an expensive virtue , though for provision it is one of the cheapest countries in the universe . No ...
... crime . The first thing that strikes is , that visits from Mr. Hastings are pretty severe things , and hospitality at Moorshedabad is an expensive virtue , though for provision it is one of the cheapest countries in the universe . No ...
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