The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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... taken from us , you had not attained an age that enabled you to profit , as your immediate prede- cessors had done , by his friendship in private and coöperation in public life . But hereditary veneration for his character and the ...
... taken from us , you had not attained an age that enabled you to profit , as your immediate prede- cessors had done , by his friendship in private and coöperation in public life . But hereditary veneration for his character and the ...
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... taken together , is such as has not been seen in the ex- amples of the Moors , the Portuguese , the Spaniards , the Ro- mans ; in no old , in no recent examples . The Dutch may re- semble it , but they have not an empire properly so ...
... taken together , is such as has not been seen in the ex- amples of the Moors , the Portuguese , the Spaniards , the Ro- mans ; in no old , in no recent examples . The Dutch may re- semble it , but they have not an empire properly so ...
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... taken , as it were in transitu , as a passage to other offices not of a judicial nature . As soon therefore as a young man has supplied the defects of his education by the advantage of some experience , he is immediately translated to a ...
... taken , as it were in transitu , as a passage to other offices not of a judicial nature . As soon therefore as a young man has supplied the defects of his education by the advantage of some experience , he is immediately translated to a ...
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... taken but one penny of unlawful emolument , -and all have taken many pennies of unlawful emolument , -does not dare to complain of the most abandoned extortion and cruel oppression in any of his fellow - servants . He who has taken a ...
... taken but one penny of unlawful emolument , -and all have taken many pennies of unlawful emolument , -does not dare to complain of the most abandoned extortion and cruel oppression in any of his fellow - servants . He who has taken a ...
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... taken from the mercantile constitution of the Company , so excellent that I will venture to say that human wisdom has never exceeded it . In this excellent in- stitution the counting - house gave lessons to the state . The active ...
... taken from the mercantile constitution of the Company , so excellent that I will venture to say that human wisdom has never exceeded it . In this excellent in- stitution the counting - house gave lessons to the state . The active ...
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abuse accusation act of parliament affairs appear appointed arbitrary power authority banyan believe Bengal bonds bribery bribes Calcutta called character charge circumstances committee Company Company's concealment conduct consequence consider corruption Cossim Ally council court of directors covenants crimes criminal Debi Sing declared defence Dinagepore duty endeavoured English evidence extortion favour fraud Gentoo give given governor Governor-General guilt Gunga Govin Sing hands Hastings's Holwell honour House of Commons India inquiry judge justice lacks Larkins letter Lord Clive lords lordships Mahomed Reza Khân Mahomedan manner means ment Mogul Mogul empire Munny Begum Nabob native nature never Nundcomar occasion opinion oppression paid peculation person pretended prince principles prisoner proceeding proof prosecution prove provinces punishment Rajah received regard revenue rupees servants Sir John Clavering situation suffer taken Tamerlane thing tion transaction Translated trust vols Warren Hastings whole zemindars
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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...