The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 3G. Dearborn, 1835 |
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... proceedings with regard to those native powers , which are wholly independent of the company . But your committee's observa- tions on the last division extend to those mat- ters only , which are not comprehended in the report of the ...
... proceedings with regard to those native powers , which are wholly independent of the company . But your committee's observa- tions on the last division extend to those mat- ters only , which are not comprehended in the report of the ...
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... proceedings , ruinous to the permanent interest of the company , might commence in great lucrative advantages . Against this evil , large pecuniary interests were rather the reverse of a remedy . Ac- cordingly , the company's servants ...
... proceedings , ruinous to the permanent interest of the company , might commence in great lucrative advantages . Against this evil , large pecuniary interests were rather the reverse of a remedy . Ac- cordingly , the company's servants ...
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... proceedings of the same persons , what was transacted on the company's account , from what was done on their own ; and it will ever be so difficult to draw this line of distinction , that , as long as the company does , directly or ...
... proceedings of the same persons , what was transacted on the company's account , from what was done on their own ; and it will ever be so difficult to draw this line of distinction , that , as long as the company does , directly or ...
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... proceedings of the directors at that time , though not altogether judicious , were in many respects honourable to them , and fa- vourable , in the intention at least , to the country they governed . For finding their trading capital ...
... proceedings of the directors at that time , though not altogether judicious , were in many respects honourable to them , and fa- vourable , in the intention at least , to the country they governed . For finding their trading capital ...
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... proceedings had upon it for eighteen months . In that situation it was thought something extraordinary , that no care was taken by him to transmit so essential a paper as his answer , and that he had no copy of it in his hands . Your ...
... proceedings had upon it for eighteen months . In that situation it was thought something extraordinary , that no care was taken by him to transmit so essential a paper as his answer , and that he had no copy of it in his hands . Your ...
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Page 383 - 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. 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...
Page 383 - My Lords, you have here also the lights of our religion ; you have the Bishops of England. My Lords, you have that true image of the primitive church in its ancient form, in its ancient ordinances, purified from the superstitions and the vices which a long succession of ages will bring upon the best institutions.
Page 383 - I impeach him in the name of the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, whose parliamentary trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of all the Commons of Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonoured.
Page 325 - 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.
Page 324 - ... of the people committed to him as a sacred trust, his defence is, — "To be robbed, violated, oppressed, is their privilege — let the constitution of their country answer for it. I did not make it for them. Slaves I found them, and as slaves I have treated them. I was a despotic prince, despotic governments are jealous, and the subjects prone to rebellion. This very proneness of the subject to shake off his allegiance exposes him to continual danger from his sovereign's jealousy, and this...
Page 286 - We charge this offender with no crimes that have not arisen from passions which it is criminal to harbour; with no offences that have not their root in avarice, rapacity, pride, insolence, ferocity, treachery, cruelty, malignity of temper; in short, in nothing that does not argue a total extinction of all moral principle, that does not manifest an inveterate blackness of heart, died in grain with malice, vitiated, corrupted, gangrened to the very core.
Page 326 - 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.
Page 381 - Hastings's government was one whole system of oppression, of robbery of individuals, of spoliation of the public, and of supersession of the whole system of the English government, in order to vest in the worst of the natives all the power that could possibly exist in any government ; in order to defeat the ends which all governments ought, in common, to have in view.
Page 511 - A Jew may sue at this day, but heretofore he could not, for then they were looked upon as enemies, but now commerce has taught the world more humanity...
Page 325 - ... the effect of the divine disposition, it is bound by the eternal laws of Him that gave it, with which no human authority can dispense; neither he that exercises it, nor even those who are subject to it: and if they were mad enough to make an express compact that should release their magistrate from his duty, and should declare their lives, liberties, and properties dependent upon, not rules and laws, but his mere capricious will, that covenant would be void.