The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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... proceeding , -a proceeding which that virtuous and enlightened representative held to be the most important of his parliamentary labours . The assumption of arbitrary power , in whatever shape it appeared , whether under the veil of ...
... proceeding , -a proceeding which that virtuous and enlightened representative held to be the most important of his parliamentary labours . The assumption of arbitrary power , in whatever shape it appeared , whether under the veil of ...
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... proceedings will be found in these volumes , and that the philosopher and the statesman will not be insensible of their value . This volume contains the speeches which he made at the close of the impeachment , and which were continued ...
... proceedings will be found in these volumes , and that the philosopher and the statesman will not be insensible of their value . This volume contains the speeches which he made at the close of the impeachment , and which were continued ...
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... proceeding , every circumstance which could prove favourable to parties appa- rently delinquent , before we finally resolved to prosecute . There was no precedent to be found in the journals , favour- able to persons in Mr. Hastings's ...
... proceeding , every circumstance which could prove favourable to parties appa- rently delinquent , before we finally resolved to prosecute . There was no precedent to be found in the journals , favour- able to persons in Mr. Hastings's ...
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... proceeding , deny justice to so great a part of the world that claims it at your hands . Your lord- ships always had an ample power , and almost unlimited juris- diction ; you have now a boundless object . It is not from this district ...
... proceeding , deny justice to so great a part of the world that claims it at your hands . Your lord- ships always had an ample power , and almost unlimited juris- diction ; you have now a boundless object . It is not from this district ...
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... proceeding . It is necessary , therefore , that nothing in that proceeding should appear to mark the slightest trace , should betray the faintest odour , of chicane . God forbid that when you try the most serious of all causes , that ...
... proceeding . It is necessary , therefore , that nothing in that proceeding should appear to mark the slightest trace , should betray the faintest odour , of chicane . God forbid that when you try the most serious of all causes , that ...
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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...