The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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... records and authentic documents , private and public . Revised Edition . In 6 vols . Bohn's Library of French Memoirs . UNIFORM WITH THE STANDARD LIBRARY , AT 3s . 6d . PER VOLUME . Memoirs of Philip de Commines , containing the ...
... records and authentic documents , private and public . Revised Edition . In 6 vols . Bohn's Library of French Memoirs . UNIFORM WITH THE STANDARD LIBRARY , AT 3s . 6d . PER VOLUME . Memoirs of Philip de Commines , containing the ...
Strana 9
... records and histories than what was to be expected from the public justice , had formed hopes consolatory to themselves and dishonourable to us . They flattered themselves that the corruptions of India would escape amidst the ...
... records and histories than what was to be expected from the public justice , had formed hopes consolatory to themselves and dishonourable to us . They flattered themselves that the corruptions of India would escape amidst the ...
Strana 15
... record , officially signed by the criminal himself in many instances . We have brought before you his own letters , authenticated by his own hand . On these we chiefly rely . But we shall likewise bring before you living wit- nesses ...
... record , officially signed by the criminal himself in many instances . We have brought before you his own letters , authenticated by his own hand . On these we chiefly rely . But we shall likewise bring before you living wit- nesses ...
Strana 37
... record . The strictest court of justice , in its proceeding , is not more , perhaps not so much , a court of record as the India Company's executive service is , or ought to be , in all its pro- ceedings . In the first place , they ...
... record . The strictest court of justice , in its proceeding , is not more , perhaps not so much , a court of record as the India Company's executive service is , or ought to be , in all its pro- ceedings . In the first place , they ...
Strana 38
... record . " My lords , this method not only must produce to them , if strictly observed , a more accurate idea of the nature of ... records . They are flown out of their hands ; they are in Europe ; they are 38 SPEECH IN THE IMPEACHMENT OF.
... record . " My lords , this method not only must produce to them , if strictly observed , a more accurate idea of the nature of ... records . They are flown out of their hands ; they are in Europe ; they are 38 SPEECH IN THE IMPEACHMENT OF.
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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...