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Hastings must have pledged a tacit faith for some degree of indulgence towards the donor: if it was a free gift, gratitude, if it was a bargain, justice obliged him to do it.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Hastings must have pledged a tacit faith for some degree of indulgence towards the donor: if it was a free gift…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke posits that Hastings had an obligation to act justly towards the donor of a gift, whether it was a free gift or a bargain.
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