The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 12Little, Brown,, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... India will say it is equivalent at least to 600,000 . a year in England ; and what a blow such a confis- cation as this would be on the fortunes of the peers of Great Britain your Lordships will judge . I like to see your estates as ...
... India will say it is equivalent at least to 600,000 . a year in England ; and what a blow such a confis- cation as this would be on the fortunes of the peers of Great Britain your Lordships will judge . I like to see your estates as ...
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Edmund Burke. of the act of Parliament under which he was sent out to India to redress the wrongs of the natives , should be made an instrument for destroying the property , real and personal , of this people . When it first came to our ...
Edmund Burke. of the act of Parliament under which he was sent out to India to redress the wrongs of the natives , should be made an instrument for destroying the property , real and personal , of this people . When it first came to our ...
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... India , ever suggested this defence , and that it was never thought of till lately found by the learned counsel in the English translation of the Hedaya . " God bless me ! " now says Mr. Hastings , " what ignorance have I been in all ...
... India , ever suggested this defence , and that it was never thought of till lately found by the learned counsel in the English translation of the Hedaya . " God bless me ! " now says Mr. Hastings , " what ignorance have I been in all ...
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... India before Mr. Hastings ? One would suppose that an English governor , if called to decide upon such a claim of the Nabob's , would doubtless be attended by judges , muftis , lawyers , and all the apparatus of legal justice . No such ...
... India before Mr. Hastings ? One would suppose that an English governor , if called to decide upon such a claim of the Nabob's , would doubtless be attended by judges , muftis , lawyers , and all the apparatus of legal justice . No such ...
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... Indian government to make an inquiry into their conduct , the prisoner had then an opportunity and a duty imposed upon him of entering into a complete justification of his conduct : he might have justified it by every civil , and by ...
... Indian government to make an inquiry into their conduct , the prisoner had then an opportunity and a duty imposed upon him of entering into a complete justification of his conduct : he might have justified it by every civil , and by ...
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