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Strana 55
... Hastings . My lords , I have gone through all the eras precedent to those of the British power in India , and am come to the first of those eras . Mr. Hastings existed in India , and was a serv- ant of the Company , before that era ...
... Hastings . My lords , I have gone through all the eras precedent to those of the British power in India , and am come to the first of those eras . Mr. Hastings existed in India , and was a serv- ant of the Company , before that era ...
Strana 57
... Hastings with any part of that guilt . What bears upon Mr. Hastings is , his having avowedly looked to such a tyrant and such a usurper as his model , and followed that pernicious example with a servile fidelity . When I have ...
... Hastings with any part of that guilt . What bears upon Mr. Hastings is , his having avowedly looked to such a tyrant and such a usurper as his model , and followed that pernicious example with a servile fidelity . When I have ...
Strana 69
... Hastings was repre- sented to have acted as interpreter in this business ; he was , therefore , himself an object of ... Hastings was interpreter in that transaction . Here were dif- ficulties both on him and Mr. Hastings . The question ...
... Hastings was repre- sented to have acted as interpreter in this business ; he was , therefore , himself an object of ... Hastings was interpreter in that transaction . Here were dif- ficulties both on him and Mr. Hastings . The question ...
Strana 70
... Hastings is at once put into the capacity of a judge . He is declared by Mr. Lush- ington not to have been an interpreter in the transaction . After this , Mr. Hastings is himself examined . Your lordships will look at the transaction ...
... Hastings is at once put into the capacity of a judge . He is declared by Mr. Lush- ington not to have been an interpreter in the transaction . After this , Mr. Hastings is himself examined . Your lordships will look at the transaction ...
Strana 81
... Hastings , should not be subject to the general regulations . This filled the whole settlement with ill blood ; but in the regulation itself ( I put the motive and the secret history out of the case ) un- doubtedly Mr. Hastings and Mr ...
... Hastings , should not be subject to the general regulations . This filled the whole settlement with ill blood ; but in the regulation itself ( I put the motive and the secret history out of the case ) un- doubtedly Mr. Hastings and Mr ...
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Strana 229 - My Lords, what is it that we want here to a great act of national justice ? Do we want a cause, my Lords ? You have the cause of oppressed princes, of undone women of the first rank, of desolated provinces, and of wasted kingdoms. Do you want a criminal, my Lords ? When was there so much iniquity ever laid to the charge of any one ? No, my Lords, you must not look to punish any other such delinquent from India.
Strana 101 - Law and arbitrary power are in eternal enmity. Name me a magistrate, and I will name property ; name me power, and I will name protection. It is a contradiction in terms, it is blasphemy in religion, it is wickedness in politics, to...
Strana 229 - Warren Hastings has not left substance enough in India to nourish such another delinquent. My lords, is it a prosecutor you want? You have before you the Commons of Great Britain as prosecutors, and I believe, my lords, that the sun in his beneficent progress round the world does not behold a more glorious sight than that of men, separated from a remote people by the material...
Strana 230 - We have here all the branches of the royal family in a situation between majesty and subjection, between the sovereign and the subject, offering a pledge in that situation for the support of the rights of the crown and the liberties of the people, both which extremities they touch. My lords, we have a great hereditary peerage here — those who have their own honour, the honour of their ancestors and of their posterity, to guard...