On the record
The behavior which your Committee consider as so intemperate and despotic he regards as a culpable degree of patience and forbearance.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke contrasts the Committee's view of Hastings' behavior as tyrannical with Hastings' own perception of it as patient and tolerant.
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