The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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Page 9
... ment , if he had performed it , and even his offering to pledge himself for the agent , in the first instance , ought to be taken as presumptive evidence of a con- nection between the said Warren Hastings and the said agent , his ...
... ment , if he had performed it , and even his offering to pledge himself for the agent , in the first instance , ought to be taken as presumptive evidence of a con- nection between the said Warren Hastings and the said agent , his ...
Page 11
... ment might pay to the orders of the Court of Direc- tors , by making all contracts annual , and advertising for proposals publicly and indifferently from all per- sons whatever , by which it might happen that such beneficial contracts ...
... ment might pay to the orders of the Court of Direc- tors , by making all contracts annual , and advertising for proposals publicly and indifferently from all per- sons whatever , by which it might happen that such beneficial contracts ...
Page 13
... ment , hereinbefore specified , of eighteen thousand pounds per annum , - insomuch that , instead of the allowance of six thousand pounds a year , in lieu of travelling charges , and of all emoluments and allow- ances whatsoever , to ...
... ment , hereinbefore specified , of eighteen thousand pounds per annum , - insomuch that , instead of the allowance of six thousand pounds a year , in lieu of travelling charges , and of all emoluments and allow- ances whatsoever , to ...
Page 19
... ment , and by means of whose special power , derived from the effect of his casting voice , all the said waste and profusion did take place . That at the end of the year 1780 , when , as the Court of Directors affirm , the Company were ...
... ment , and by means of whose special power , derived from the effect of his casting voice , all the said waste and profusion did take place . That at the end of the year 1780 , when , as the Court of Directors affirm , the Company were ...
Page 38
... that , nevertheless , they found themselves obliged " to confess that the state- ment of those transactions appeared to them in many parts so unintelligible , that they felt themselves under the 38 ARTICLES OF CHARGE.
... that , nevertheless , they found themselves obliged " to confess that the state- ment of those transactions appeared to them in many parts so unintelligible , that they felt themselves under the 38 ARTICLES OF CHARGE.
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