The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 8Bell & Daldy, 1870 - Great Britain |
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... Oude , this man was an actual prisoner of Mr. Hastings , and nothing else ; a mere vassal , as he says himself , in effect and substance , though not in name . Can any one believe or think that Mr. Hastings would not have received from ...
... Oude , this man was an actual prisoner of Mr. Hastings , and nothing else ; a mere vassal , as he says himself , in effect and substance , though not in name . Can any one believe or think that Mr. Hastings would not have received from ...
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... Oude . 66 ' If , " says Mr. Hastings , " I ever talked of selling the Company's sove- reignty over Benares to the Nabob of Oude , it was but in terrorem ; and no subsequent act of mine warrants the sup- position of my having seriously ...
... Oude . 66 ' If , " says Mr. Hastings , " I ever talked of selling the Company's sove- reignty over Benares to the Nabob of Oude , it was but in terrorem ; and no subsequent act of mine warrants the sup- position of my having seriously ...
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... Oude , it was only in terrorem . " In the face of this assertion , he here gives you to understand he never held out anything in terrorem , but what he intended to execute . But we will show you that in fact he had reserved to himself a ...
... Oude , it was only in terrorem . " In the face of this assertion , he here gives you to understand he never held out anything in terrorem , but what he intended to execute . But we will show you that in fact he had reserved to himself a ...
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... Oude ; a country which , before our acquaintance with it , was in the same happy and flourishing condition with Benares ; and which dates its period of decline and misery from the time of our intermeddling with it . The Nabob of Oude ...
... Oude ; a country which , before our acquaintance with it , was in the same happy and flourishing condition with Benares ; and which dates its period of decline and misery from the time of our intermeddling with it . The Nabob of Oude ...
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... Oude . My lords , Oude ( together with the additions made to it by Sujah Dowlah ) , in point of geographical extent , is about the size of England . Sujah Dowlah , who possessed this coun- try as Nabob , was a prince of a haughty ...
... Oude . My lords , Oude ( together with the additions made to it by Sujah Dowlah ) , in point of geographical extent , is about the size of England . Sujah Dowlah , who possessed this coun- try as Nabob , was a prince of a haughty ...
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