The works of ... Edmund Burke, Zväzok 71870 |
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Strana 10
... whole effect , if not the very existence , of the process of an impeachment of high crimes and misdemeanours before the peers of this kingdom , upon the charge of the Com- mons , will very much be decided by your judgment in this cause ...
... whole effect , if not the very existence , of the process of an impeachment of high crimes and misdemeanours before the peers of this kingdom , upon the charge of the Com- mons , will very much be decided by your judgment in this cause ...
Strana 15
... whole body of eastern offenders ; a captain - general of iniquity , under whom all the fraud , all the peculation , all the tyranny , in India , are embodied , disciplined , arrayed , and paid . This is the person , my lords , that we ...
... whole body of eastern offenders ; a captain - general of iniquity , under whom all the fraud , all the peculation , all the tyranny , in India , are embodied , disciplined , arrayed , and paid . This is the person , my lords , that we ...
Strana 20
... whole body and the whole train of their servants , the corporate body as a corpo- rate body , individuals as individuals , are responsible to the high justice of this kingdom . In delegating great power to the East - India Company this ...
... whole body and the whole train of their servants , the corporate body as a corpo- rate body , individuals as individuals , are responsible to the high justice of this kingdom . In delegating great power to the East - India Company this ...
Strana 23
... whole exterior order of its political service is carried on upon a mercantile plan and mercantile principles . In fact the East - India Company in Asia is a state in the disguise of a merchant . Its whole service is a system of public ...
... whole exterior order of its political service is carried on upon a mercantile plan and mercantile principles . In fact the East - India Company in Asia is a state in the disguise of a merchant . Its whole service is a system of public ...
Strana 26
... whole of the East - India Com- pany's system is monopoly in some sense or other . The same principle predominates in the service abroad and the service at home ; and both systems are united into one , animated with the same spirit ...
... whole of the East - India Com- pany's system is monopoly in some sense or other . The same principle predominates in the service abroad and the service at home ; and both systems are united into one , animated with the same spirit ...
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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...