Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1J. M. Dent, 1961 |
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Page 348
... votes of constituents is as immoral as to buy the votes of representatives . The candi- date who gives five guineas to the freeman is as culpable as the man who gives three hundred guineas to the member . Yet we know that , in our own ...
... votes of constituents is as immoral as to buy the votes of representatives . The candi- date who gives five guineas to the freeman is as culpable as the man who gives three hundred guineas to the member . Yet we know that , in our own ...
Page 629
... vote in favour of Mr. Fox's motion . The House was thunderstruck ; and it well might be so . For the wrong done to Cheyte Sing , even had it been as flagitious as Fox and Francis contended , was a trifle when compared with the horrors ...
... vote in favour of Mr. Fox's motion . The House was thunderstruck ; and it well might be so . For the wrong done to Cheyte Sing , even had it been as flagitious as Fox and Francis contended , was a trifle when compared with the horrors ...
Page 631
... vote that the later part of his administration furnished matter for no less than twenty articles of impeachment ? They first represented the conduct of Hastings in 1780 and 1781 as so highly meritorious that , like works of ...
... vote that the later part of his administration furnished matter for no less than twenty articles of impeachment ? They first represented the conduct of Hastings in 1780 and 1781 as so highly meritorious that , like works of ...
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