The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: Speeches and correspondenceG. Bell & sons, 1889 |
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... Corruption . Tuesday , 21st April , 1789 . Speech on the Sixth Charge , 25th April , 5th May , and 7th May , 1789 . • Advertisement to Report of Committee appointed to inspect the Lords ' Journals First Day of Reply · · 451 455 TO HIS ...
... Corruption . Tuesday , 21st April , 1789 . Speech on the Sixth Charge , 25th April , 5th May , and 7th May , 1789 . • Advertisement to Report of Committee appointed to inspect the Lords ' Journals First Day of Reply · · 451 455 TO HIS ...
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... for Mr. Hastings to embody abuse , and to put himself at the head of a regular system of corruption . Another circumstance in that service is deserving of no- tice . Except in the highest parts of all , 26 SPEECH IN THE IMPEACHMENT OF.
... for Mr. Hastings to embody abuse , and to put himself at the head of a regular system of corruption . Another circumstance in that service is deserving of no- tice . Except in the highest parts of all , 26 SPEECH IN THE IMPEACHMENT OF.
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... corruption ; but if you examine his conduct towards the corrupt body he describes , you would imagine he had lived in the speculative schemes of visionary perfection . He was fourteen years at the head of that service ; and there is not ...
... corruption ; but if you examine his conduct towards the corrupt body he describes , you would imagine he had lived in the speculative schemes of visionary perfection . He was fourteen years at the head of that service ; and there is not ...
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... corruption , or other malversation , his course has been to answer little or nothing to that speci- fic bribery , corruption , or malversation ; his way has been to call on the court of directors to inquire of every servant who comes to ...
... corruption , or other malversation , his course has been to answer little or nothing to that speci- fic bribery , corruption , or malversation ; his way has been to call on the court of directors to inquire of every servant who comes to ...
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... corrupt presents from all parties in those changes ; the vitiating and maiming the Company's records ; the suppression of public correspond- ence ; corrupt combinations and conspiracies ; perfidy in negotiation established into ...
... corrupt presents from all parties in those changes ; the vitiating and maiming the Company's records ; the suppression of public correspond- ence ; corrupt combinations and conspiracies ; perfidy in negotiation established into ...
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