The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 12Little, Brown,, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... Hastings , well knowing ( what your Lordships must also by this time be perfectly satisfied was the case ) that this unfortunate Nabob had no will of his own , draws down his poor victim to Chunar by an order to attend the Governor ...
... Hastings , well knowing ( what your Lordships must also by this time be perfectly satisfied was the case ) that this unfortunate Nabob had no will of his own , draws down his poor victim to Chunar by an order to attend the Governor ...
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... Hastings agreed to recall from Oude that body of pensioners , whose conduct there is described in such strong terms as being ruinous to the Vizier and to all his affairs . These pensioners Mr. Hastings engaged to recall ; but he never ...
... Hastings agreed to recall from Oude that body of pensioners , whose conduct there is described in such strong terms as being ruinous to the Vizier and to all his affairs . These pensioners Mr. Hastings engaged to recall ; but he never ...
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... Hastings projected , and actually did accomplish . My Lords , at the treaty of Chunar , as it is called , Mr. Hastings ( for he always artfully feels his way as he proceeds ) first says , that the Nabob shall be permitted to do this act ...
... Hastings projected , and actually did accomplish . My Lords , at the treaty of Chunar , as it is called , Mr. Hastings ( for he always artfully feels his way as he proceeds ) first says , that the Nabob shall be permitted to do this act ...
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... Hastings confesses that the Nabob reluctantly made the confiscation to the extent proposed . Why ? " Because , " says he , " the orderlies , namely , certain persons so called , sub- servient to his debaucheries , were persons whom he ...
... Hastings confesses that the Nabob reluctantly made the confiscation to the extent proposed . Why ? " Because , " says he , " the orderlies , namely , certain persons so called , sub- servient to his debaucheries , were persons whom he ...
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... Hastings or his own natural feelings and principles of justice dragged him one way or dragged him another . Mr. Middleton , trembling , and under the awe of that dreadful responsibility under which your Lordships may remember Mr. Hastings ...
... Hastings or his own natural feelings and principles of justice dragged him one way or dragged him another . Mr. Middleton , trembling , and under the awe of that dreadful responsibility under which your Lordships may remember Mr. Hastings ...
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