The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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Strana 8
... accusation . This , my lords , is the plan which we mean to pursue on the great charge which is now to abide your judgment . My lords , I must look upon it as an auspicious circum- stance to this cause , in which the honour of the ...
... accusation . This , my lords , is the plan which we mean to pursue on the great charge which is now to abide your judgment . My lords , I must look upon it as an auspicious circum- stance to this cause , in which the honour of the ...
Strana 31
... accuse ? The whole ser- vice is irregular : nobody is free from small offences ; and , as I have said , the great offender can always crush the small one . If you examine the correspondence of Mr. Hastings , you would imagine , from ...
... accuse ? The whole ser- vice is irregular : nobody is free from small offences ; and , as I have said , the great offender can always crush the small one . If you examine the correspondence of Mr. Hastings , you would imagine , from ...
Strana 97
... accuse him for his ill treatment of the people committed to him as a sacred trust , his defence is , -to be robbed , violated , oppressed is their privilege ; let the constitution of their country answer for it , -I did not make it for ...
... accuse him for his ill treatment of the people committed to him as a sacred trust , his defence is , -to be robbed , violated , oppressed is their privilege ; let the constitution of their country answer for it , -I did not make it for ...
Strana 143
... accusation ? Was the accusation improba- ble , either on account of the subject - matter or the actor in it ? Does such an appointment as that of Munny Begum , in the most barefaced evasion of his orders , appear to your lordships a ...
... accusation ? Was the accusation improba- ble , either on account of the subject - matter or the actor in it ? Does such an appointment as that of Munny Begum , in the most barefaced evasion of his orders , appear to your lordships a ...
Strana 144
... accusation . He refuses to permit the inquiry to go on , attempts to dissolve the council , commands his banyan not to attend . The council , however , goes on , examines to the bottom , and resolves that the charge was proved , and ...
... accusation . He refuses to permit the inquiry to go on , attempts to dissolve the council , commands his banyan not to attend . The council , however , goes on , examines to the bottom , and resolves that the charge was proved , and ...
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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...