The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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Strana 31
... law of the court of directors , which law parliament had bound upon him as his rule of action , —not satisfied with his long tacit connivance , ventured before he left his government , and among his last acts , to pass a gen- eral act ...
... law of the court of directors , which law parliament had bound upon him as his rule of action , —not satisfied with his long tacit connivance , ventured before he left his government , and among his last acts , to pass a gen- eral act ...
Strana 32
... court of directors to inquire of every servant who comes to Europe , and to say whether there was any one man in it that will give him an ill word . He has put himself into a situation in which he may always safely call to his character ...
... court of directors to inquire of every servant who comes to Europe , and to say whether there was any one man in it that will give him an ill word . He has put himself into a situation in which he may always safely call to his character ...
Strana 38
... court of directors , he says , " It ought to be remembered that the basis upon which you rose to power , and have been able to stand the shock of repeated convulsions , has been the accuracy and simplicity of mercan- tile method , which ...
... court of directors , he says , " It ought to be remembered that the basis upon which you rose to power , and have been able to stand the shock of repeated convulsions , has been the accuracy and simplicity of mercan- tile method , which ...
Strana 40
... directors but the shell and husk of a dry , formal , official correspondence ... court , in which he has laid the axe at once to the root ; which was , by ... court of directors , in various writings and declarations , he refuses to be ...
... directors but the shell and husk of a dry , formal , official correspondence ... court , in which he has laid the axe at once to the root ; which was , by ... court of directors , in various writings and declarations , he refuses to be ...
Strana 62
... court of directors supporting the scandalous breach of their own orders . I shall state the particulars of this second revolution more at large . Soon after the revolution which had seated Meer Jaffier on the vice - royal throne , the ...
... court of directors supporting the scandalous breach of their own orders . I shall state the particulars of this second revolution more at large . Soon after the revolution which had seated Meer Jaffier on the vice - royal throne , the ...
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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...