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The bribes which I have hitherto brought before your Lordships belong to the first period of his bribery, before he thought of the doctrine on which he has since defended it.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke refers to the initial phase of bribery before Hastings developed a more sophisticated approach to avoid detection.
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