The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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Page 16
... minds of the Directors the wickedness of so atrocious , flagitious , and horrid an act of treachery . At the end of five years what do you think was the failure ? No less than 2,050,000l . Then a new source of corruption was opened ...
... minds of the Directors the wickedness of so atrocious , flagitious , and horrid an act of treachery . At the end of five years what do you think was the failure ? No less than 2,050,000l . Then a new source of corruption was opened ...
Page 34
... mind , he at once loses all his old principles , he grows stubborn and refractory , and refuses obedience . And in this sullen , uncomplying mood he continues , until , to gratify Mr. Francis , in an agreement on some of their ...
... mind , he at once loses all his old principles , he grows stubborn and refractory , and refuses obedience . And in this sullen , uncomplying mood he continues , until , to gratify Mr. Francis , in an agreement on some of their ...
Page 38
... the records of the Company , must leave upon a mind conscious of its own integrity . My Lords , I will venture to say , there is no man but owes something to his character . It is the 38 IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS .
... the records of the Company , must leave upon a mind conscious of its own integrity . My Lords , I will venture to say , there is no man but owes something to his character . It is the 38 IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS .
Page 39
... mind often to despise common , vulgar calumny ; but if ever there is an occasion in which it does become such a mind to dis- prove it , it is the case of being charged in high office with pecuniary malversation , pecuniary corruption ...
... mind often to despise common , vulgar calumny ; but if ever there is an occasion in which it does become such a mind to dis- prove it , it is the case of being charged in high office with pecuniary malversation , pecuniary corruption ...
Page 45
... mind to your benefit , and to your benefit have I applied them . " - Now here is a new system of bribery , contrary to law , very ingenious in the contrivance , but , I believe , as unlikely to produce its intended effect upon the mind ...
... mind to your benefit , and to your benefit have I applied them . " - Now here is a new system of bribery , contrary to law , very ingenious in the contrivance , but , I believe , as unlikely to produce its intended effect upon the mind ...
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