The Works of Edmund Burke in Nine VolumesLittle and Brown, 1839 |
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Strana 17
... thought it best to dispatch first . As to the crime , which we chose , we first considered well what it was in its nature , under all the circumstances , which attended it . We weighed it with all its extenuations , and with all its ...
... thought it best to dispatch first . As to the crime , which we chose , we first considered well what it was in its nature , under all the circumstances , which attended it . We weighed it with all its extenuations , and with all its ...
Strana 27
... thought at that time , and will be thought now , a bad bargain for the country . The powers of the company were , under that charter , merely commercial . By degrees , as the theatre of operation was distant ; as its intercourse was ...
... thought at that time , and will be thought now , a bad bargain for the country . The powers of the company were , under that charter , merely commercial . By degrees , as the theatre of operation was distant ; as its intercourse was ...
Strana 38
... thought fit . And therefore that service , under his guidance and influence , was , beyond even what its own nature disposed it to , a service of confederacy , a service of connivance , a service composed of various systems of guilt ...
... thought fit . And therefore that service , under his guidance and influence , was , beyond even what its own nature disposed it to , a service of confederacy , a service of connivance , a service composed of various systems of guilt ...
Strana 62
... thought proper to consider it . According to them , if a subordinate prince , like Cheit Sing , was not ready to pay any exorbitant sum on instant demand , or submit to any extent of fine , which should be inflicted upon him by the mere ...
... thought proper to consider it . According to them , if a subordinate prince , like Cheit Sing , was not ready to pay any exorbitant sum on instant demand , or submit to any extent of fine , which should be inflicted upon him by the mere ...
Strana 63
... thought it becoming to call and treat them , when they were in arms against their sovereign , were regarded with respect , and were admitted to easy reconciliations ; be- cause in reality , in their occasional hostilities , they were ...
... thought it becoming to call and treat them , when they were in arms against their sovereign , were regarded with respect , and were admitted to easy reconciliations ; be- cause in reality , in their occasional hostilities , they were ...
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abuse accusation act of parliament admitted affairs appear appointed arbitrary power authority banyan Bengal bonds bribery bribes Calcutta called cause Cawn character charge circumstances committee company's concealment conduct consequence corruption Cossim Ally council court of directors crimes criminal Debi Sing declared defence Dinagepore duty evidence extortion fraud give given governor governor-general guilt Gunga Govin Sing hands Hastings's high steward Holwell honor House of Commons impeachment India inquiry judges judgment justice lacks Larkins letter Lord Clive lord high steward lords lordships Mahomed Reza Khân manner means ment Munny Begum nabob nature never Nundcomar occasion opinion oppression parties peculation peers person presumption pretended prince principles prisoner proceeding proof prosecution prove province rajah reason received regard revenue rules rupees servants Sir John Clavering situation suffer taken thing tion transaction trial trust Warren Hastings whole witnesses
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Strana 119 - We may bite our chains, if we will; but we shall be made to know ourselves, and be taught that man is born to be governed by law; and he that will substitute will in the place of it, is an enemy to God.
Strana 265 - 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 116 - We are all born in subjection, all born equally, high and low, governors and governed, in subjection to one great, immutable, preexistent law, prior to all our devices, and prior to all our contrivances, paramount to all our ideas, and all our sensations, antecedent to our very existence, by which we are knit and connected in the eternal frame of the universe, out of which we cannot stir.
Strana 267 - I impeach Warren Hastings of high crimes and misdemeanors. I impeach him in the name of the Commons' House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed.
Strana 629 - it is declared and ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, that the office of...
Strana 220 - The women thus treated lost their caste. My lords, we are not here to commend or blame the institutions and prejudices of a whole race of people, radicated in them by a long succession of ages, on which no reason or argument, on which no vicissitudes of things, no mixtures of men, or foreign conquest, have been able to make the smallest impression.
Strana 531 - Parliament hath a judicial place, and can be no witness; and this is the reason that judges ought not to give any opinion of a matter of parliament, because it is not to be decided by the common laws, but secundum legem et consuetudinem parliament, and so the judges in divers parliaments have confessed.
Strana 216 - That the punishments, inflicted upon the ryotts both of Rungpore and Dinagepore for non-payment, were in many instances of such a nature, that I would rather wish to draw a veil over them, than shock your feelings by the detail. But that however disagreeable the task may be to myself, it is absolutely necessary for the sake of justice, humanity, and the honor of government, that they should be exposed, to be prevented in future.
Strana 609 - Witnesses. The practice is to swear the witnesses in open house, and then examine them there : or a committee may be named, who shall examine them in committee, either on interrogatories agreed on in the house, or such as the committee in their discretion shall demand.
Strana 116 - Here he has declared his opinion that he is a despotic prince; that he is to use arbitrary power; and, of course, all his acts are covered with that shield. "I know," says he, "the constitution of Asia only from its practice " Will your lordships submit to hear the corrupt practices of mankind made the principles of government?