The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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Strana 4
... conduct is well known to his country ; for covertly or in concealment , I may confidently assert , he has done nothing . To his country , then , I may safely leave the judgment of that conduct . His political knowledge , and his ability ...
... conduct is well known to his country ; for covertly or in concealment , I may confidently assert , he has done nothing . To his country , then , I may safely leave the judgment of that conduct . His political knowledge , and his ability ...
Strana 17
... conduct in that high and elevated situation will undoubtedly be scrutinized with a severity as great as power is invidious . its It is well known , that enormous wealth has poured into this country from India through a thousand channels ...
... conduct in that high and elevated situation will undoubtedly be scrutinized with a severity as great as power is invidious . its It is well known , that enormous wealth has poured into this country from India through a thousand channels ...
Strana 19
... conduct and event of this cause will put an end to such doubts , wherever they may be entertained . Your lordships will exercise the great plenary powers with which you are invested in a manner that will do honour to the protecting ...
... conduct and event of this cause will put an end to such doubts , wherever they may be entertained . Your lordships will exercise the great plenary powers with which you are invested in a manner that will do honour to the protecting ...
Strana 25
... conduct through all their progress . On the expectants of office it imposed the necessity of acquiring a character in proportion to their standing , in order that all which they had gained by the good behaviour of years should not be ...
... conduct through all their progress . On the expectants of office it imposed the necessity of acquiring a character in proportion to their standing , in order that all which they had gained by the good behaviour of years should not be ...
Strana 26
... conduct to the laws . Therefore , in a body so constituted con- federacy is easy , and has been general . Your lordships are not to expect that that should happen in such a body which never happened in any body or corporation , that is ...
... conduct to the laws . Therefore , in a body so constituted con- federacy is easy , and has been general . Your lordships are not to expect that that should happen in such a body which never happened in any body or corporation , that is ...
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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...