The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4C. and J. Rivington, 1803 |
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... affairs out of the hands of the Eaft - India com- pany , on my principles , I muft fee feveral condi- tions . ft . The object affected by the abuse should be great and important . 2d . The abuse affect- ing this great object ought to be ...
... affairs out of the hands of the Eaft - India com- pany , on my principles , I muft fee feveral condi- tions . ft . The object affected by the abuse should be great and important . 2d . The abuse affect- ing this great object ought to be ...
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... affairs of my government , and are en- " tirely their own masters . " Mr. Middleton , Mr. Haftings's confidential refident , vouches for the truth of this reprefentation in its fullest extent . " I am concerned to confefs , that there ...
... affairs of my government , and are en- " tirely their own masters . " Mr. Middleton , Mr. Haftings's confidential refident , vouches for the truth of this reprefentation in its fullest extent . " I am concerned to confefs , that there ...
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... affair . Let us fuppofe that the power , for which Mr. Haftings contends , a power which no fovereign ever did , or ever can veft in any of his subjects , namely , his own fovereign authority , to be conveyed by the act of parliament to ...
... affair . Let us fuppofe that the power , for which Mr. Haftings contends , a power which no fovereign ever did , or ever can veft in any of his subjects , namely , his own fovereign authority , to be conveyed by the act of parliament to ...
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... char- As the company has made this use of their truft , I fhould ill discharge mine , if I refused to give my moft chearful vote for the redress of these abuses , by by putting the affairs of fo large and valuable a EAST - INDIA BÍLL . 93.
... char- As the company has made this use of their truft , I fhould ill discharge mine , if I refused to give my moft chearful vote for the redress of these abuses , by by putting the affairs of fo large and valuable a EAST - INDIA BÍLL . 93.
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Edmund Burke. by putting the affairs of fo large and valuable a part of the interests of this nation , and of man- kind , into some steady hands , poffeffing the con fidence , and affured of the support of this house , until they can be ...
Edmund Burke. by putting the affairs of fo large and valuable a part of the interests of this nation , and of man- kind , into some steady hands , poffeffing the con fidence , and affured of the support of this house , until they can be ...
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Page 15 - Indeed, my observation has furnished me with nothing that is to be found in any habits of life or education, which tends wholly to disqualify men for the functions of government, but that, by which the power of exercising those functions is very frequently obtained, I mean a spirit and habits of low cabal and intrigue ; which I have never, in one instance, seen united with a capacity for sound and manly policy.
Page 260 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new havoc.
Page 262 - Ali and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One dead uniform silence reigned over the whole region.
Page 8 - I must observe that the phrase of " the chartered rights of men" is full of affectation; and very unusual in the discussion of privileges conferred by charters of the present description. But it is not difficult to discover what end that ambiguous mode of expression, so often...
Page 129 - These thoughts will support a mind, which only exists for honour, under the burthen of temporary reproach. He is doing indeed a great good ; such as rarely falls to the lot, and almost as rarely coincides with the desires, of any man. Let him use his time. Let him give the whole length of the reins to his benevolence. He is now on a great eminence, where the eyes of mankind are turned to him. He may live long, he may do much. But here is the summit. He never can exceed what he does this day.
Page 39 - Their resources were dearly bought, but they were sure, and the general stock of the community grew by the general effort.
Page 260 - ... and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor...
Page 41 - English youth in India drink the intoxicating draught of authority and dominion before their heads are able to bear it, and as they are full grown in fortune long before they are ripe in principle, neither nature nor reason have any opportunity to exert themselves for remedy of the excesses of their premature power.
Page 10 - These chartered rights (to speak of such charters and of their effects in terms of the greatest possible moderation) do at least suspend the natural rights of mankind at large, and in their very frame and constitution are liable to fall into a direct violation of them.
Page 129 - Fourth wished that he might live to see a fowl in the pot of every peasant in his kingdom. That sentiment of homely benevolence was worth all the splendid sayings that are recorded of kings. But he wished perhaps for more than could be obtained, and the goodness of the man exceeded the power of the king. But this gentleman, a subject, may this day say this at least, with truth, that he secures the rice in his pot to every man in India.