The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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Strana 43
... bond which is one of the chief instruments of society , and which , support- ing the individual , connects the species , can have no existence with them - I mean the convivial bond . That race can be held to no other by that great link ...
... bond which is one of the chief instruments of society , and which , support- ing the individual , connects the species , can have no existence with them - I mean the convivial bond . That race can be held to no other by that great link ...
Strana 44
... bonds to the rules of what , amongst them , is called his caste . It may be necessary just to state to your lordships what a caste is . The Gentoo people from the oldest time have been distributed into various orders , all of them ...
... bonds to the rules of what , amongst them , is called his caste . It may be necessary just to state to your lordships what a caste is . The Gentoo people from the oldest time have been distributed into various orders , all of them ...
Strana 45
... bond is dissolved . Few survive this most terrible of all calamities . To speak to an Indian of his caste is to speak to him of his all . But the rule of caste has , with them , given one power more to fortune than the manners of any ...
... bond is dissolved . Few survive this most terrible of all calamities . To speak to an Indian of his caste is to speak to him of his all . But the rule of caste has , with them , given one power more to fortune than the manners of any ...
Strana 154
... bonds for them as money of his own , and bearing legal interest . This was his method of endeavouring to conceal some at least of his bribes ( for I would not suggest , nor have your lordships to think , that I believe that these were ...
... bonds for them as money of his own , and bearing legal interest . This was his method of endeavouring to conceal some at least of his bribes ( for I would not suggest , nor have your lordships to think , that I believe that these were ...
Strana 161
... bonds for this money if it was not your own ? How came you to vitiate and corrupt the state of the Com- , pany's records , and to state yourself a lender to the Company , when in reality you was their debtor ? His answer was , I really ...
... bonds for this money if it was not your own ? How came you to vitiate and corrupt the state of the Com- , pany's records , and to state yourself a lender to the Company , when in reality you was their debtor ? His answer was , I really ...
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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...