The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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... guilt , required only to be This is not a fanciful enumeration of possible cases . The reader will find in these volumes examples of Mr. Burke's exertions , referrible to eacù particular case . - EDIT . known ; and Mr. Burke was firmly ...
... guilt , required only to be This is not a fanciful enumeration of possible cases . The reader will find in these volumes examples of Mr. Burke's exertions , referrible to eacù particular case . - EDIT . known ; and Mr. Burke was firmly ...
Strana 10
... guilt and national ignominy ; or whether this nation will convert the very offences which have thrown a transient shade upon its government , into something that will reflect a permanent lustre upon the honour , justice , and humanity ...
... guilt and national ignominy ; or whether this nation will convert the very offences which have thrown a transient shade upon its government , into something that will reflect a permanent lustre upon the honour , justice , and humanity ...
Strana 12
... guilt stalked with an erect and upright front , and that legal authority seemed to skulk and hide its head like outlawed guilt ; when we found that some of those very persons who were appointed by parliament to assert the authority of ...
... guilt stalked with an erect and upright front , and that legal authority seemed to skulk and hide its head like outlawed guilt ; when we found that some of those very persons who were appointed by parliament to assert the authority of ...
Strana 18
... guilt , and our common interest in the plunder of the East , we have invented a set of scho- lastic distinctions , abhorrent to the common sense and un- propitious to the common necessities of mankind , by which we are to deny ourselves ...
... guilt , and our common interest in the plunder of the East , we have invented a set of scho- lastic distinctions , abhorrent to the common sense and un- propitious to the common necessities of mankind , by which we are to deny ourselves ...
Strana 31
... guilt , of which Mr. Hast- ings was the head and the protector . But this general con- nivance he did not think sufficient to secure to him the general support of the Indian interest . He went further . We shall prove to your lordships ...
... guilt , of which Mr. Hast- ings was the head and the protector . But this general con- nivance he did not think sufficient to secure to him the general support of the Indian interest . He went further . We shall prove to your lordships ...
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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...