On the record
You will find, that, wherever he pretended to redress the grievances which he had occasioned, he did not take care to have any one part of his pretended redress executed.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke criticizes Hastings for failing to implement his own proposed solutions to grievances.
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