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... judge fit for publication . With this desire of my most dear and honoured friend I am endeavouring to comply . The cultivators of literature will for ever lament the want of his finishing hand . I trust , however , that the substance of ...
... judge fit for publication . With this desire of my most dear and honoured friend I am endeavouring to comply . The cultivators of literature will for ever lament the want of his finishing hand . I trust , however , that the substance of ...
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... judge . According to the judgment that you shall give upon the past transactions in India , inseparably con- nected as they are with the principles which support them , the whole character of your future government in that dis- tant ...
... judge . According to the judgment that you shall give upon the past transactions in India , inseparably con- nected as they are with the principles which support them , the whole character of your future government in that dis- tant ...
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... judge so equitably . Where two motives , neither of them perfectly justifiable , may be assigned , the worst has the chance of being preferred . If , from any ap- pearance of chicane in the court , justice should fail , all men will say ...
... judge so equitably . Where two motives , neither of them perfectly justifiable , may be assigned , the worst has the chance of being preferred . If , from any ap- pearance of chicane in the court , justice should fail , all men will say ...
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... judges civil , and in some respects criminal , who pass judgment upon the greatest properties of a great country ... judge how the members are to be coerced . Mr. Hastings at the head of the service , with high legal emoluments , has ...
... judges civil , and in some respects criminal , who pass judgment upon the greatest properties of a great country ... judge how the members are to be coerced . Mr. Hastings at the head of the service , with high legal emoluments , has ...
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... judge of the dewanny courts of adawlet is to be filled by the junior servants of the Company ; and as the judicial emolument is not substantially equal to that of other situations , the office of a judge is to be taken , as it were in ...
... judge of the dewanny courts of adawlet is to be filled by the junior servants of the Company ; and as the judicial emolument is not substantially equal to that of other situations , the office of a judge is to be taken , as it were in ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...