The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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Strana 61
... nabob , seated on his musnud , than they immediately , or in a short time , projected another revolution - a revolution which was to unsettle all the former had settled - a revolution to make way for new disturbances and new wars , and ...
... nabob , seated on his musnud , than they immediately , or in a short time , projected another revolution - a revolution which was to unsettle all the former had settled - a revolution to make way for new disturbances and new wars , and ...
Strana 62
... Nabob Meer Jaffier and the presidency of Calcutta ; and as in a common cause , and by the terms of their mutual alli- ance , they took the field against him . The Nabob's eldest son , and heir - apparent , commanded in chief . Major ...
... Nabob Meer Jaffier and the presidency of Calcutta ; and as in a common cause , and by the terms of their mutual alli- ance , they took the field against him . The Nabob's eldest son , and heir - apparent , commanded in chief . Major ...
Strana 63
... Nabob . My lords , there was in the house of Meer Jaffier , in his court , and in his family , a man of an intriguing , crafty , subtile , and at the same time bold , daring , desperate , bloody , and ferocious character , called Cossim ...
... Nabob . My lords , there was in the house of Meer Jaffier , in his court , and in his family , a man of an intriguing , crafty , subtile , and at the same time bold , daring , desperate , bloody , and ferocious character , called Cossim ...
Strana 64
... Nabob by the most strong , direct , and sanguine assur- ances of friendship and protection that it was possible to give to man . Whilst the projected revolution stood suspended ; whilst Mr. Holwell urged it forward , and Mr. Vansittart ...
... Nabob by the most strong , direct , and sanguine assur- ances of friendship and protection that it was possible to give to man . Whilst the projected revolution stood suspended ; whilst Mr. Holwell urged it forward , and Mr. Vansittart ...
Strana 65
... Nabob of Bengal and the Company's troops under Major Calliaud . It was whilst they faced the common enemy as one body , this negotiation for the destruction of the Nabob of Bengal by his faithful allies of the Company was going on with ...
... Nabob of Bengal and the Company's troops under Major Calliaud . It was whilst they faced the common enemy as one body , this negotiation for the destruction of the Nabob of Bengal by his faithful allies of the Company was going on with ...
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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...