The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Bell & Daldy, 1872 - Great Britain |
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... Interest paid or credited thereon ARTICLES OF CHARGE OF HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANOURS AGAINST WARREN HASTINGS , ESQUIRE , LATE GOVERNOR - GE- NERAL OF BENGAL ; PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS UPON THE 4TH DAY OF APRIL , 1786 : - 217 ...
... Interest paid or credited thereon ARTICLES OF CHARGE OF HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANOURS AGAINST WARREN HASTINGS , ESQUIRE , LATE GOVERNOR - GE- NERAL OF BENGAL ; PRESENTED TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS UPON THE 4TH DAY OF APRIL , 1786 : - 217 ...
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... interest would arise in the general court more independent in itself , and more connected with the commercial prosperity of the Company . Under the new constitution , no pro- cation . prietor , not possessed of a thousand pounds capital ...
... interest would arise in the general court more independent in itself , and more connected with the commercial prosperity of the Company . Under the new constitution , no pro- cation . prietor , not possessed of a thousand pounds capital ...
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... interest . the Company , and to the state , might be done by individuals with perfect impunity : and even the body itself might be subjected to a forefeiture of all its privileges for defaults of persons , who , so far from being under ...
... interest . the Company , and to the state , might be done by individuals with perfect impunity : and even the body itself might be subjected to a forefeiture of all its privileges for defaults of persons , who , so far from being under ...
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... interest of the Company , might commence in great lucrative advantages . Against this evil large pecuniary interests were rather the reverse of a remedy . Accordingly the Company's servants have ever since covered over the worst ...
... interest of the Company , might commence in great lucrative advantages . Against this evil large pecuniary interests were rather the reverse of a remedy . Accordingly the Company's servants have ever since covered over the worst ...
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... interests , which subsist at the expense of the collective body . At the moment of this revolution in the proprietory , as it might naturally be expected , those , who had either no very particular interest in their vote , or but a ...
... interests , which subsist at the expense of the collective body . At the moment of this revolution in the proprietory , as it might naturally be expected , those , who had either no very particular interest in their vote , or but a ...
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