The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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Strana 54
... Khân broke into that country , carried off its revenues , overturned the throne , and massacred not only many of the chief nobility , but almost all the inhabitants of the capital city . This rude shock , which that empire was never ...
... Khân broke into that country , carried off its revenues , overturned the throne , and massacred not only many of the chief nobility , but almost all the inhabitants of the capital city . This rude shock , which that empire was never ...
Strana 68
... Khân , a great chief in the service of the shâh zadda , or prince ( now the Great Mogul , the sovereign under whom the Company holds their charter ) , had , it seems , made a pro- posal to the Nabob , that if a considerable territory ...
... Khân , a great chief in the service of the shâh zadda , or prince ( now the Great Mogul , the sovereign under whom the Company holds their charter ) , had , it seems , made a pro- posal to the Nabob , that if a considerable territory ...
Strana 107
... Khân or Tamerlane shall give place to the liberal spirit of a British legislature ; and , " says he , " I shall be ... Khân , which he calls ar- bitrary institutes , I never saw them . If he has that book , he will oblige the public by ...
... Khân or Tamerlane shall give place to the liberal spirit of a British legislature ; and , " says he , " I shall be ... Khân , which he calls ar- bitrary institutes , I never saw them . If he has that book , he will oblige the public by ...
Strana 108
... Khân which we have , there is not a shadow of arbitrary power to be found in any one of them . Institutes of arbitrary power ! Why , if there is arbitrary power , there can be no institutes . As to the Institutes of Tamerlane , here ...
... Khân which we have , there is not a shadow of arbitrary power to be found in any one of them . Institutes of arbitrary power ! Why , if there is arbitrary power , there can be no institutes . As to the Institutes of Tamerlane , here ...
Strana 143
... Khân . He shall not blow hot and cold . In what respect was Mr. Hast- ings better than Mahomed Reza Khân , that the whole rule , principle , and system of accusation and inquiry should be to- tally reversed in general , nay , reversed ...
... Khân . He shall not blow hot and cold . In what respect was Mr. Hast- ings better than Mahomed Reza Khân , that the whole rule , principle , and system of accusation and inquiry should be to- tally reversed in general , nay , reversed ...
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abuse accusation act of parliament affairs appear appointed arbitrary power authority banyan believe Bengal bonds bribery bribes Calcutta called character charge circumstances committee Company Company's concealment conduct consequence consider corruption Cossim Ally council court of directors covenants crimes criminal Debi Sing declared defence Dinagepore duty endeavoured English evidence extortion favour fraud Gentoo give given governor Governor-General guilt Gunga Govin Sing hands Hastings's Holwell honour House of Commons India inquiry judge justice lacks Larkins letter Lord Clive lords lordships Mahomed Reza Khân Mahomedan manner means ment Mogul Mogul empire Munny Begum Nabob native nature never Nundcomar occasion opinion oppression paid peculation person pretended prince principles prisoner proceeding proof prosecution prove provinces punishment Rajah received regard revenue rupees servants Sir John Clavering situation suffer taken Tamerlane thing tion transaction Translated trust vols Warren Hastings whole zemindars
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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...