The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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Page 27
... 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 personal at- tendance of the ...
... 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 personal at- tendance of the ...
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Edmund Burke. duct of public business , to encourage and facilitate fraud and corruption in all offices of pecuniary trust , and to defeat all inquiry into the misconduct of any person in whom pecuniary trust is reposed . That the said ...
Edmund Burke. duct of public business , to encourage and facilitate fraud and corruption in all offices of pecuniary trust , and to defeat all inquiry into the misconduct of any person in whom pecuniary trust is reposed . That the said ...
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... corrupt a principle was or might be applied . That no evidence has been produced to prove that it was true , nor any ground of argument stated to show that it might be credible , that any na- ― tive of India had voluntarily and ...
... corrupt a principle was or might be applied . That no evidence has been produced to prove that it was true , nor any ground of argument stated to show that it might be credible , that any na- ― tive of India had voluntarily and ...
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... corrupt purposes . IX . - RESIGNATION OF THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR- GENERAL . THAT Warren Hastings having by his agent , Lauch- lan Macleane , Esquire , on the 10th day of October , in the year 1776 , " signified to the Court of Directors ...
... corrupt purposes . IX . - RESIGNATION OF THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR- GENERAL . THAT Warren Hastings having by his agent , Lauch- lan Macleane , Esquire , on the 10th day of October , in the year 1776 , " signified to the Court of Directors ...
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... corruption , and in others great oppressions committed on the native inhabitants , they thought it unjust to suffer the delinquents to pass wholly un- punished , and therefore they directed the Governor- General and Council forthwith to ...
... corruption , and in others great oppressions committed on the native inhabitants , they thought it unjust to suffer the delinquents to pass wholly un- punished , and therefore they directed the Governor- General and Council forthwith to ...
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