The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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... abuse their power , are accused by statesmen , and tried by statesmen , not upon the niceties of a narrow jurisprudence , but upon the enlarged and solid principles of state morality . It is here that those who by the abuse of power ...
... abuse their power , are accused by statesmen , and tried by statesmen , not upon the niceties of a narrow jurisprudence , but upon the enlarged and solid principles of state morality . It is here that those who by the abuse of power ...
Strana 16
... abuse of the forms , and a technical course of proceeding , deny justice to so great a part of the world that claims it at your hands . Your lord- ships always had an ample power , and almost unlimited juris- diction ; you have now a ...
... abuse of the forms , and a technical course of proceeding , deny justice to so great a part of the world that claims it at your hands . Your lord- ships always had an ample power , and almost unlimited juris- diction ; you have now a ...
Strana 17
... abuse of our forms of proceeding . It is necessary , therefore , that nothing in that proceeding should appear to mark the slightest trace , should betray the faintest odour , of chicane . God forbid that when you try the most serious ...
... abuse of our forms of proceeding . It is necessary , therefore , that nothing in that proceeding should appear to mark the slightest trace , should betray the faintest odour , of chicane . God forbid that when you try the most serious ...
Strana 20
... abused , are the powers delegated to him by the East- India Company . The East - India Company itself acts under two very dissimilar sorts of powers , derived from two sources very remote from each other . The first source of its power ...
... abused , are the powers delegated to him by the East- India Company . The East - India Company itself acts under two very dissimilar sorts of powers , derived from two sources very remote from each other . The first source of its power ...
Strana 21
... their charter , and which we state Mr. Hastings to have abused , to state in as short and as comprehensive words as I can ( for the matter is large indeed ) what the constitution of that Company is WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 21.
... their charter , and which we state Mr. Hastings to have abused , to state in as short and as comprehensive words as I can ( for the matter is large indeed ) what the constitution of that Company is WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 21.
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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...