The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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Strana 4
... duty , but at the same time had interposed a pow- erful check to the commission in future of such enormities . It was from this view of the subject that he had , a short time before his last sickness , begun to prepare materials for a ...
... duty , but at the same time had interposed a pow- erful check to the commission in future of such enormities . It was from this view of the subject that he had , a short time before his last sickness , begun to prepare materials for a ...
Strana 5
... duty , however painful the performance of it might be , to endeavour to main- tain that balance between its constituent parts which is necessary to the very existence of the constitution itself . If at one time he abdicated , as it were ...
... duty , however painful the performance of it might be , to endeavour to main- tain that balance between its constituent parts which is necessary to the very existence of the constitution itself . If at one time he abdicated , as it were ...
Strana 12
... duty without betraying a sacred trust . Having , therefore , resolved upon the last and only resource , a penal prosecution , it was our next business to act in a manner worthy of our long deli- beration . In all points we proceeded ...
... duty without betraying a sacred trust . Having , therefore , resolved upon the last and only resource , a penal prosecution , it was our next business to act in a manner worthy of our long deli- beration . In all points we proceeded ...
Strana 21
... duty to the people below them , which was created under the Mogul charter , is not annihilated , is not even suspended ; and for their respon- sibility in the performance of that duty they are thrown back upon that country ( thank God ...
... duty to the people below them , which was created under the Mogul charter , is not annihilated , is not even suspended ; and for their respon- sibility in the performance of that duty they are thrown back upon that country ( thank God ...
Strana 30
... duty which attaches upon all servants , but are obliged to engage in a specific covenant with their masters to perform all the duties described in that covenant ( which are all the duties of their relation ) under heavy pe- nalties ...
... duty which attaches upon all servants , but are obliged to engage in a specific covenant with their masters to perform all the duties described in that covenant ( which are all the duties of their relation ) under heavy pe- nalties ...
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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...