...instruments of your power should avail themselves of their authority, and proceed even to extor1765. tion in those cases where simple corruption could not keep...by superiors, could not fail of being followed in a proportionable degree by inferiors. The evil was contagious, and spread among the civil and military,...

...instruments of your power should avail themselves of their authority, and proceed even to extortion where simple corruption could not keep pace with their...set by superiors, could not fail of being followed proportionably by inferiors: the evil was contagious, and spread among the civil and military, down...

...wonder that the lust of riches should readily embrace the proffered means of its gratification, or that instruments of your power should avail themselves of their authority, and proceed even to extor1765 - tion in those cases where simple corruption could not keep pace with their rapacity. Examples...

...in those cases where simple BOOK IV. corruption could not keep pace with their rapacity. CHAP. vn. Examples of this sort, set by superiors, could not fail of being followed in a proportionable degree by inferiors. 17t "'' The evil was contagious, and spread among the civil and...

...means of its gratification, and that the instruments of your power should avail themselves of your authority and proceed even to extortion in those cases...could not fail of being followed in a proportionate degree by inferiors. The evil was 478 ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. CH. nn. contagious, and spread...

...means of its gratification, and that the instruments of your power should avail themselves of your authority and proceed even to extortion in those cases...could not fail of being followed in a proportionate degree by inferiors. The evil was contagious, and spread among the civil and military down to the writer,...

...means of its gratification, and that the instruments of your power should avail themselves of your authority and proceed even to extortion in those cases...could not fail of being followed in a proportionate degree by inferiors. The evil was contagious, and spread among the civil and military down to the writer,...

...means of its gratification, and that the instruments of your power should avail themselves of your authority and proceed even to extortion in those cases...could not fail of being followed in a proportionate degree by inferiors. The evil was 1 Mill, book iv. ch. v. r contagious, and spread among the civil...

...known in any age or country " (17/5/1766). Now, a few words of Lord Clive and Bengal letters:— ad proceed even to extortion in those cases where simple...corruption could not keep pace with their rapacity." " Luxury, corruption, avarice, and rapacity" "to stem that torrent of luxury, corruption, and licentiousness,"...

...riches should readily embrace 1 Parliamentary Report of Committee, of May, 1772, vol. iii, pp. 294, etc. the proffered means of its gratification, or that...could not fail of being followed in a proportionate degree by inferiors; the evil was contagious and spread among the civil and military, down to the writer,...