The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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... authority , and disobeyed their orders , in not tak- ing the lowest offers " ; and they ordered that the con- tract for elephants should be annulled : and the said Directors further declared , that , " if the contractor should recover ...
... authority , and disobeyed their orders , in not tak- ing the lowest offers " ; and they ordered that the con- tract for elephants should be annulled : and the said Directors further declared , that , " if the contractor should recover ...
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... authority and private command of the said Warren Hastings . That the East India Company having thought prop- er to create the office of Advocate - General in Bengal , and to appoint Sir John Day to that office , it was resolved by a ...
... authority and private command of the said Warren Hastings . That the East India Company having thought prop- er to create the office of Advocate - General in Bengal , and to appoint Sir John Day to that office , it was resolved by a ...
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... authority of the Company , eluded the repeated orders of the Directors , and ex- posed the Company to the risk and uncertainty of re- covering , at a distant period , and perhaps by a process of law , a sum of money which they had ...
... authority of the Company , eluded the repeated orders of the Directors , and ex- posed the Company to the risk and uncertainty of re- covering , at a distant period , and perhaps by a process of law , a sum of money which they had ...
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... authority placed over him by law ; and that he has thereby set a dangerous exam- ple to his successors , and to every man in trust or office under him . - That the mode in which he has reimbursed himself is a crime of a much higher ...
... authority placed over him by law ; and that he has thereby set a dangerous exam- ple to his successors , and to every man in trust or office under him . - That the mode in which he has reimbursed himself is a crime of a much higher ...
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... authority by every legal means . " That the said General Clavering , conceiving that the office of Governor - General was vacated by the arrival of the said dispatches , which acquainted the Council - General of the resignation of the ...
... authority by every legal means . " That the said General Clavering , conceiving that the office of Governor - General was vacated by the arrival of the said dispatches , which acquainted the Council - General of the resignation of the ...
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