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The Nabob, your Lordships see, is dead,--dead in law, dead in politics, dead in a court of justice, dead upon the records of the Company.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke remarks on the political and legal demise of the Nabob, emphasizing the totality of his absence in various domains.
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