The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 9Little, Brown,, 1866 - Great Britain |
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... nature ought to be conducted , and did not only subject the Company's interest , in point of expense , to fraud and collusion , but did thereby expose the navigation of the Bengal river to manifest hazard and distress : considering that ...
... nature ought to be conducted , and did not only subject the Company's interest , in point of expense , to fraud and collusion , but did thereby expose the navigation of the Bengal river to manifest hazard and distress : considering that ...
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... nature against him was fresh and unim- paired in the minds of men . That on the 30th of March , 1775 , a member of the Council produced and laid before the board a peti- tion from Mir Zein Abul Deen , ( formerly farmer of a district ...
... nature against him was fresh and unim- paired in the minds of men . That on the 30th of March , 1775 , a member of the Council produced and laid before the board a peti- tion from Mir Zein Abul Deen , ( formerly farmer of a district ...
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... nature to the first , viz . , a corrupt bargaining for the disposal of a great office , since he declared that his remarks on that transac- tion would be equally applicable to the rest ; and that , by objecting to the motion for the ...
... nature to the first , viz . , a corrupt bargaining for the disposal of a great office , since he declared that his remarks on that transac- tion would be equally applicable to the rest ; and that , by objecting to the motion for the ...
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... nature have been concealed , since those which he has confessed might have been forever , and that this partial confession was either extorted from the said Warren Hastings by the dread of detection , or made with a view of removing ...
... nature have been concealed , since those which he has confessed might have been forever , and that this partial confession was either extorted from the said Warren Hastings by the dread of detection , or made with a view of removing ...
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... nature ( as far as a general confession can pro- tect such acts ) which may be detected hereafter , and which in fact may not make part of the gross sum so confessed , and that it tends to perplex and defeat all inquiry into such ...
... nature ( as far as a general confession can pro- tect such acts ) which may be detected hereafter , and which in fact may not make part of the gross sum so confessed , and that it tends to perplex and defeat all inquiry into such ...
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