The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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... effect that favourite system which , from the be- ginning of the late reign , was directed in all its operations to the very extinction of Whiggism . If , in an alarming exigency , when all constituted authority was threatened with ...
... effect that favourite system which , from the be- ginning of the late reign , was directed in all its operations to the very extinction of Whiggism . If , in an alarming exigency , when all constituted authority was threatened with ...
Strana 6
... effects of political intrigues , he bore the consequences with that dignity which naturally belongs to conscious merit , when deprived of any means of being useful . Whilst I appeal with confidence to the people for their judgment upon ...
... effects of political intrigues , he bore the consequences with that dignity which naturally belongs to conscious merit , when deprived of any means of being useful . Whilst I appeal with confidence to the people for their judgment upon ...
Strana 8
... effect of the crimes which they allege to have been by him committed . They have also di- rected me to give an explanation ( with their aid I may be enabled to give it ) of such circumstances preceding the crimes charged on Mr. Hastings ...
... effect of the crimes which they allege to have been by him committed . They have also di- rected me to give an explanation ( with their aid I may be enabled to give it ) of such circumstances preceding the crimes charged on Mr. Hastings ...
Strana 10
... effect , if not the very existence , of the process of an impeachment of high crimes and misdemeanours before the peers of this kingdom , upon the charge of the Com- mons , will very much be decided by your judgment in this cause . This ...
... effect , if not the very existence , of the process of an impeachment of high crimes and misdemeanours before the peers of this kingdom , upon the charge of the Com- mons , will very much be decided by your judgment in this cause . This ...
Strana 11
... effect , with a religious vigilance , and never to suffer it to be either discredited or antiquated . For this great end your lordships are invested with great and plenary powers : but you do not suspend , you do not supersede , you do ...
... effect , with a religious vigilance , and never to suffer it to be either discredited or antiquated . For this great end your lordships are invested with great and plenary powers : but you do not suspend , you do not supersede , you do ...
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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...