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Page 130
... Windham , Grey , a zeal only less intense than his own . It was in the spring of 1786 that the articles of charge of Hastings's high crimes and misdemeanours , as Burke had drawn them , were presented to the House of Commons . It was in ...
... Windham , Grey , a zeal only less intense than his own . It was in the spring of 1786 that the articles of charge of Hastings's high crimes and misdemeanours , as Burke had drawn them , were presented to the House of Commons . It was in ...
Page 131
... Windham used to come up from the box of the managers of the impeachment to talk over with her the incidents of the day , and she gave him her impressions of Burke's speech , which were probably those of the majority of his hearers , for ...
... Windham used to come up from the box of the managers of the impeachment to talk over with her the incidents of the day , and she gave him her impressions of Burke's speech , which were probably those of the majority of his hearers , for ...
Page 136
... Windham . " Elliot was one of Burke's most faithful and attached friends , and he was intimately concerned in all that was going on in the inner circle of the party . It is worth while , therefore , to reproduce his account , from a ...
... Windham . " Elliot was one of Burke's most faithful and attached friends , and he was intimately concerned in all that was going on in the inner circle of the party . It is worth while , therefore , to reproduce his account , from a ...
Page 137
... Bologna , and to spend some days in quiet with Windham and the master of the house . Elliot and Wind- 1 Life and Letters of Sir G. Elliot , i . 261–3 . ham , who were talked about for a post for 7 VII . ] 137 PARTY ARRANGEMENTS .
... Bologna , and to spend some days in quiet with Windham and the master of the house . Elliot and Wind- 1 Life and Letters of Sir G. Elliot , i . 261–3 . ham , who were talked about for a post for 7 VII . ] 137 PARTY ARRANGEMENTS .
Page 139
... Windham has told us that at this time Burke was a man decried , persecuted , and proscribed , not being much valued even by his own party , and by half the nation considered as little better than an ingenious mad- man . This is evidence ...
... Windham has told us that at this time Burke was a man decried , persecuted , and proscribed , not being much valued even by his own party , and by half the nation considered as little better than an ingenious mad- man . This is evidence ...
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Page 194 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Page 100 - Animated with all the avarice of age and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another, wave after wave, and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting.
Page 71 - But authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, — these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution.
Page 71 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Page 100 - Here the manufacturer and husbandman will bless the just and punctual hand that in India has torn the cloth from the loom, or wrested the scanty portion of rice and salt from the peasant of Bengal, or wrung from him the very opium in which he forgot his oppressions and his oppressor.
Page 107 - it is not so ; and I must be in a wretched state indeed when your company would not be a delight to me.' Mr. Burke, in a tremulous voice, expressive of being very tenderly affected, replied. ' My dear Sir, you have always been too good to me.
Page 8 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalise the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 71 - If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination...