The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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Strana 3
... authority , or the newly- acquired dominion of a mob , ' - was the sure object of his detestation and hostility . His endeavours to stifle it in its birth , or to obstruct its march and impede its progress , or to redress its ...
... authority , or the newly- acquired dominion of a mob , ' - was the sure object of his detestation and hostility . His endeavours to stifle it in its birth , or to obstruct its march and impede its progress , or to redress its ...
Strana 11
... authority and misdemeanour in office , has come before this tribunal . The last is that of Lord Macclesfield , which hap- pened in the year 1725. So that the oldest process known to the constitution of this country has , upon its ...
... authority and misdemeanour in office , has come before this tribunal . The last is that of Lord Macclesfield , which hap- pened in the year 1725. So that the oldest process known to the constitution of this country has , upon its ...
Strana 12
... authority seemed to skulk and hide its head like outlawed guilt ; when we found that some of those very persons who were appointed by parliament to assert the authority of the laws of this kingdom , were the most forward , the most bold ...
... authority seemed to skulk and hide its head like outlawed guilt ; when we found that some of those very persons who were appointed by parliament to assert the authority of the laws of this kingdom , were the most forward , the most bold ...
Strana 14
... authority ; that he did not commit after reproof and reprimand , the reproof and reprimand of those who are authorized by the laws to reprove and reprimand him . The crimes of Mr. Hastings are crimes not only in themselves , but ...
... authority ; that he did not commit after reproof and reprimand , the reproof and reprimand of those who are authorized by the laws to reprove and reprimand him . The crimes of Mr. Hastings are crimes not only in themselves , but ...
Strana 15
... authority , and station . We have brought before you the chief of the tribe , the head of the whole body of eastern offenders ; a captain - general of iniquity , under whom all the fraud , all the peculation , all the tyranny , in India ...
... authority , and station . We have brought before you the chief of the tribe , the head of the whole body of eastern offenders ; a captain - general of iniquity , under whom all the fraud , all the peculation , all the tyranny , in India ...
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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...