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Edmund Burke: Hastings never dared, because he could not, arrest oppression in its course, without drying up the source of his own…

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Hastings never dared, because he could not, arrest oppression in its course, without drying up the source of his own corrupt emolument.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke illustrates how Hastings' corruption prevents him from stopping oppression.

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