The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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Strana 22
... given to the East - India Company . That Company ac- quired these powers about the end of the reign of Charles II .; and they were afterwards more fully as well as more legally given by parliament after the Revolution . From this time ...
... given to the East - India Company . That Company ac- quired these powers about the end of the reign of Charles II .; and they were afterwards more fully as well as more legally given by parliament after the Revolution . From this time ...
Strana 23
... given , there wants but time and circumstance to make these powers supersede every other . The affairs of commerce will fall at last into their proper rank and situation . However primary in their original intention , they will become ...
... given , there wants but time and circumstance to make these powers supersede every other . The affairs of commerce will fall at last into their proper rank and situation . However primary in their original intention , they will become ...
Strana 30
... given at least ostensibly good , all have proved noxious to the country , in- stead of beneficial . To illustrate this point I beg leave to observe to your lordships , that the servants of the Company are obliged to enter into that ...
... given at least ostensibly good , all have proved noxious to the country , in- stead of beneficial . To illustrate this point I beg leave to observe to your lordships , that the servants of the Company are obliged to enter into that ...
Strana 35
... given of banyans a distinction is to be made . Your lordships must distinguish the banyans of the British servants in subordinate situations , and the banyans who are such to persons in higher authority . In the latter case the banyan ...
... given of banyans a distinction is to be made . Your lordships must distinguish the banyans of the British servants in subordinate situations , and the banyans who are such to persons in higher authority . In the latter case the banyan ...
Strana 41
... given on record under his own hand ; that you will say to this unfaithful servant of the Company , what was said to another unfaithful person , upon a far less occasion , by a far greater authority , " Out of thy own mouth will I judge ...
... given on record under his own hand ; that you will say to this unfaithful servant of the Company , what was said to another unfaithful person , upon a far less occasion , by a far greater authority , " Out of thy own mouth will I judge ...
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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...