A Library of Universal Literature: In 4 Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations. Pt.3: Orations, Volume 4Collier, 1900 |
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Page 123
... bribes . He has substituted oppression and tyranny in the place of legal government . With all that unbounded , licentious power which he has assumed over the public revenues , instead of endeavoring to find a series of gradual ...
... bribes . He has substituted oppression and tyranny in the place of legal government . With all that unbounded , licentious power which he has assumed over the public revenues , instead of endeavoring to find a series of gradual ...
Page 129
... bribery , corruption , or other malversation , his course has been to answer little or nothing to that specific bribery , corruption , or malversation ; his way has been to call on the court of directors to inquire of every servant who ...
... bribery , corruption , or other malversation , his course has been to answer little or nothing to that specific bribery , corruption , or malversation ; his way has been to call on the court of directors to inquire of every servant who ...
Page 134
... bribes . Through them he decides falsely against the titles of litigants in the court of castes , or in the offices of public registry . Through them Mr. Hastings has exercised oppressions which , I will venture to say , in his own name ...
... bribes . Through them he decides falsely against the titles of litigants in the court of castes , or in the offices of public registry . Through them Mr. Hastings has exercised oppressions which , I will venture to say , in his own name ...
Page 140
... bribery , base peculation , iron - handed extortion , fierce , unrelenting tyranny , might themselves have been invested with those sacred robes of justice , before which this day they have cause to tremble . Mr. Hastings , sensible of ...
... bribery , base peculation , iron - handed extortion , fierce , unrelenting tyranny , might themselves have been invested with those sacred robes of justice , before which this day they have cause to tremble . Mr. Hastings , sensible of ...
Page 148
... bribery and peculation - he has enthroned him , I say , on the first seat of ecclesiastical jurisdiction , which was to decide upon the castes of all those people , including their rank , their family , their honor , and their happiness ...
... bribery and peculation - he has enthroned him , I say , on the first seat of ecclesiastical jurisdiction , which was to decide upon the castes of all those people , including their rank , their family , their honor , and their happiness ...
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