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If you heard no more, do your Lordships want anything further to convince you that this must be a violent, atrocious, and corrupt act,--suppose it had gone no further than the seraglio?
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Edmund Burke
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Burke argues that the actions taken against the Nabob's mother were egregious and corrupt.
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