The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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Strana 27
... bribes . He has substituted oppression and tyranny in the place of legal government . With all that unbounded , licentious power which he has assumed over the public revenues , instead of endeavouring to find a series of gradual ...
... bribes . He has substituted oppression and tyranny in the place of legal government . With all that unbounded , licentious power which he has assumed over the public revenues , instead of endeavouring to find a series of gradual ...
Strana 36
... bribes . Through them he decides falsely against the titles of litigants in the court of castes , or in the offices of public registry . Through them Mr. Hastings has exercised oppressions which , I will venture to say , in his own name ...
... bribes . Through them he decides falsely against the titles of litigants in the court of castes , or in the offices of public registry . Through them Mr. Hastings has exercised oppressions which , I will venture to say , in his own name ...
Strana 62
... bribes and corrupt presents from all parties in those changes ; the vitiating and maiming the Company's records ; the suppression of public correspond- ence ; corrupt combinations and conspiracies ; perfidy in negotiation established ...
... bribes and corrupt presents from all parties in those changes ; the vitiating and maiming the Company's records ; the suppression of public correspond- ence ; corrupt combinations and conspiracies ; perfidy in negotiation established ...
Strana 84
... bribes he was vanquished . A deputation was sent from Calcutta to the miserable Nabob , to tear Nundcomar , his only support , from his side ; and to put the object of all his terrors , Ma- homed Reza Cawn , in his place . Thus began a ...
... bribes he was vanquished . A deputation was sent from Calcutta to the miserable Nabob , to tear Nundcomar , his only support , from his side ; and to put the object of all his terrors , Ma- homed Reza Cawn , in his place . Thus began a ...
Strana 87
... bribes , by which all these revolutions were bought , had not the name of conditions , stipulations , or rewards ; they even had the free and gratuitous style of presents . The re- ceivers contended , that they were mere gratuities ...
... bribes , by which all these revolutions were bought , had not the name of conditions , stipulations , or rewards ; they even had the free and gratuitous style of presents . The re- ceivers contended , that they were mere gratuities ...
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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...