The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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Strana 9
... transactions in India , inseparably con- nected as they are with the principles which support them , the whole character of your future government in that dis- tant empire is to be unalterably decided . It will IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN ...
... transactions in India , inseparably con- nected as they are with the principles which support them , the whole character of your future government in that dis- tant empire is to be unalterably decided . It will IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN ...
Strana 37
... transactions , public and private : they are bound to do this by an express covenant . They oblige them , as a corrective upon that diary , to keep a letter- book , in which all their letters are to be regularly entered . And they are ...
... transactions , public and private : they are bound to do this by an express covenant . They oblige them , as a corrective upon that diary , to keep a letter- book , in which all their letters are to be regularly entered . And they are ...
Strana 38
... transaction in your service , and every expenditure , a matter of record . " My lords , this method not only must produce to them , if strictly observed , a more accurate idea of the nature of their affairs , and the nature of their ...
... transaction in your service , and every expenditure , a matter of record . " My lords , this method not only must produce to them , if strictly observed , a more accurate idea of the nature of their affairs , and the nature of their ...
Strana 40
... transactions has been buried . Notwithstanding his unwearied pains in the work of spo- liation , some precious fragments are left , which we ought in- finitely to value , by which we may learn and lament the loss of what he has ...
... transactions has been buried . Notwithstanding his unwearied pains in the work of spo- liation , some precious fragments are left , which we ought in- finitely to value , by which we may learn and lament the loss of what he has ...
Strana 51
... from that mark of servitude , and thereby declared not to be a con- quered people . The native princes , in all their transactions with the Mogul government , carried the evident marks of E 2 WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 51.
... from that mark of servitude , and thereby declared not to be a con- quered people . The native princes , in all their transactions with the Mogul government , carried the evident marks of E 2 WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 51.
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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...