The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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... COMMONS HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE COUNTY OF YORK . MY DEAR LORD , I AM persuaded that your lordship will not be displeased to see your name inscribed at the beginning of an introduc- tion to the fourth volume of Mr. Burke's posthumous ...
... COMMONS HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE COUNTY OF YORK . MY DEAR LORD , I AM persuaded that your lordship will not be displeased to see your name inscribed at the beginning of an introduc- tion to the fourth volume of Mr. Burke's posthumous ...
Strana 13
... House that insolent and unbecoming paper which lies upon our table . It was de- liberately given in by his own hand , and signed with his own name . The Commons , however , passed by everything offen- sive in that paper with a ...
... House that insolent and unbecoming paper which lies upon our table . It was de- liberately given in by his own hand , and signed with his own name . The Commons , however , passed by everything offen- sive in that paper with a ...
Strana 19
... House of Commons has used , concern- ing the crimes which they have chosen , concerning the crim- inal upon whom they attach the crimes , and concerning the evidence which they mean to produce , I am now to proceed to open that part of ...
... House of Commons has used , concern- ing the crimes which they have chosen , concerning the crim- inal upon whom they attach the crimes , and concerning the evidence which they mean to produce , I am now to proceed to open that part of ...
Strana 21
... Commons of Great Britain , but in their own right , to the bar of this House , before the su- preme royal justice of this kingdom , from whence originally all the powers under which they have suffered were derived . It may be a little ...
... Commons of Great Britain , but in their own right , to the bar of this House , before the su- preme royal justice of this kingdom , from whence originally all the powers under which they have suffered were derived . It may be a little ...
Strana 29
... House of Commons and in the defences he has made before your lordships , has lamented his own situation in this particular . It was much to be lamented indeed . How far it will furnish justification , extenuation , or palliation of his ...
... House of Commons and in the defences he has made before your lordships , has lamented his own situation in this particular . It was much to be lamented indeed . How far it will furnish justification , extenuation , or palliation of his ...
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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...