The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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... hands one of the means of promoting and securing its most valuable interests and general prosperity . With these and every other good wish , and with the sincerest regard , I remain , My dear Lord , Your most obedient humble Servant , W ...
... hands one of the means of promoting and securing its most valuable interests and general prosperity . With these and every other good wish , and with the sincerest regard , I remain , My dear Lord , Your most obedient humble Servant , W ...
Strana 16
... hand , I have too much confidence in the learning with which you will be advised , and the liberality and nobleness ... hands . Your lord- ships always had an ample power , and almost unlimited juris- diction ; you have now a boundless ...
... hand , I have too much confidence in the learning with which you will be advised , and the liberality and nobleness ... hands . Your lord- ships always had an ample power , and almost unlimited juris- diction ; you have now a boundless ...
Strana 27
... hands and sullied his government with bribes . He has substituted oppression and tyranny in the place of legal government . With all that unbounded , licentious power which he has assumed over the public revenues , instead of ...
... hands and sullied his government with bribes . He has substituted oppression and tyranny in the place of legal government . With all that unbounded , licentious power which he has assumed over the public revenues , instead of ...
Strana 38
... hands . For your lordships must have observed that it is rare indeed , that in a continued course of evil practices any uniform method of proceeding will serve the purposes of the delinquent . Innocence is plain , direct , and simple ...
... hands . For your lordships must have observed that it is rare indeed , that in a continued course of evil practices any uniform method of proceeding will serve the purposes of the delinquent . Innocence is plain , direct , and simple ...
Strana 39
Edmund Burke. their hands ; they are in Europe ; they are safe in the regis- ters of the Company ; perhaps they are under the eye of par- liament , before the writers of them have time to invent an excuse for a direct contrary conduct to ...
Edmund Burke. their hands ; they are in Europe ; they are safe in the regis- ters of the Company ; perhaps they are under the eye of par- liament , before the writers of them have time to invent an excuse for a direct contrary conduct to ...
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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...