The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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... conduct of such of the Company's business in Bengal as could be performed by contract , and had repeatedly and strictly ordered the Governor and Council of Fort William to observe those rules , viz .: That all contracts should be ...
... conduct of such of the Company's business in Bengal as could be performed by contract , and had repeatedly and strictly ordered the Governor and Council of Fort William to observe those rules , viz .: That all contracts should be ...
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... conduct in this transaction . That the act of Parliament of 1773 , by which the first Governor - Gen- eral and Council were appointed , did expressly limit the duration of their office to the term of five years , which expired in ...
... conduct in this transaction . That the act of Parliament of 1773 , by which the first Governor - Gen- eral and Council were appointed , did expressly limit the duration of their office to the term of five years , which expired in ...
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... conduct . That it was of itself high- ly criminal in the said Warren Hastings to have so wasted the property of the East India Company , and that the purpose to be obtained by such waste was a great aggravation of that crime . That ...
... conduct . That it was of itself high- ly criminal in the said Warren Hastings to have so wasted the property of the East India Company , and that the purpose to be obtained by such waste was a great aggravation of that crime . That ...
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... conduct for the clearance of his inno- cence and honor , he did repeatedly endeavor to elude and stifle all inquiry by attempting to dissolve the . meetings of the Council at which such charges were produced , and by other means , and ...
... conduct for the clearance of his inno- cence and honor , he did repeatedly endeavor to elude and stifle all inquiry by attempting to dissolve the . meetings of the Council at which such charges were produced , and by other means , and ...
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... conduct on the points on which he had been injuriously ar- raigned , and to afford them the clearest conviction of his own integrity , and of the propriety of his mo- tives for declining a present defence of it " ; and hav- ing never ...
... conduct on the points on which he had been injuriously ar- raigned , and to afford them the clearest conviction of his own integrity , and of the propriety of his mo- tives for declining a present defence of it " ; and hav- ing never ...
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