The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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Strana 9
... justice , had formed hopes consolatory to themselves and dishonourable to us . They flattered themselves that the corruptions of India would escape amidst the dissensions of parliament . They are disappointed . They will be disappointed ...
... justice , had formed hopes consolatory to themselves and dishonourable to us . They flattered themselves that the corruptions of India would escape amidst the dissensions of parliament . They are disappointed . They will be disappointed ...
Strana 10
... justice , and humanity of this kingdom . My lords , there is another consideration , which augments the solicitude of the Commons , equal to those other two great interests I have stated , those of our empire and our national character ...
... justice , and humanity of this kingdom . My lords , there is another consideration , which augments the solicitude of the Commons , equal to those other two great interests I have stated , those of our empire and our national character ...
Strana 12
... justice of the nation to recollect itself . To have forborne longer would not have been patience , but collusion ; it would have been participation with guilt ; it would have been to make ourselves accomplices with the criminal . We ...
... justice of the nation to recollect itself . To have forborne longer would not have been patience , but collusion ; it would have been participation with guilt ; it would have been to make ourselves accomplices with the criminal . We ...
Strana 14
... being crimes of contumacy . They were crimes not against forms , but against those eter- nal laws of justice , which are our rule and our birthright . His offences are , not in formal , technical language 14 SPEECH IN THE IMPEACHMENT OF.
... being crimes of contumacy . They were crimes not against forms , but against those eter- nal laws of justice , which are our rule and our birthright . His offences are , not in formal , technical language 14 SPEECH IN THE IMPEACHMENT OF.
Strana 15
... justice some- thing of the appearance of oppression ; no , my lords , we have brought before you the first man of India in rank , authority , and station . We have brought before you the chief of the tribe , the head of the whole body ...
... justice some- thing of the appearance of oppression ; no , my lords , we have brought before you the first man of India in rank , authority , and station . We have brought before you the chief of the tribe , the head of the whole body ...
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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...