The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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Strana 13
... without being in fact great offences . The Commons are too liberal not to allow for the difficulties of a great and arduous public situation . They know too well the domineering necessities , WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 13.
... without being in fact great offences . The Commons are too liberal not to allow for the difficulties of a great and arduous public situation . They know too well the domineering necessities , WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 13.
Strana 14
Edmund Burke. situation . They know too well the domineering necessities , which frequently occur in all great affairs . They know the exigency of a pressing occasion , which in its precipitate career bears everything down before it ...
Edmund Burke. situation . They know too well the domineering necessities , which frequently occur in all great affairs . They know the exigency of a pressing occasion , which in its precipitate career bears everything down before it ...
Strana 17
... situation will undoubtedly be scrutinized with a severity as great as power is invidious . its It is well known , that enormous wealth has poured into this country from India through a thousand channels , public and concealed ; and it ...
... situation will undoubtedly be scrutinized with a severity as great as power is invidious . its It is well known , that enormous wealth has poured into this country from India through a thousand channels , public and concealed ; and it ...
Strana 23
... situation . However primary in their original intention , they will become secondary . The pos- session , therefore , and the power of assertion of these great authorities coinciding with the improved state of Europe , with the improved ...
... situation . However primary in their original intention , they will become secondary . The pos- session , therefore , and the power of assertion of these great authorities coinciding with the improved state of Europe , with the improved ...
Strana 28
... situation , whatever the name of them may be , the powers that are granted , the hopes that every man has of establishing himself at home , -I repeat , it is a source of infinite grievance — of in- finite abuse of which source of ...
... situation , whatever the name of them may be , the powers that are granted , the hopes that every man has of establishing himself at home , -I repeat , it is a source of infinite grievance — of in- finite abuse of which source 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...