The Works of ... Edmund Burke, Volume 13F. & C. Rivington, 1822 - English literature |
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... abuse their power , are accused by statesmen , and tried by statesmen , not upon the niceties of a narrow jurisprudence , but upon the enlarged and solid principles of state morality . It is here , that those , who by the abuse of power ...
... abuse their power , are accused by statesmen , and tried by statesmen , not upon the niceties of a narrow jurisprudence , but upon the enlarged and solid principles of state morality . It is here , that those , who by the abuse of power ...
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... abuse of authority and misdemeanour in office , has come before this Tribunal . The last is that of Lord Maccles field , which happened in the year 1725 . that the oldest process known to the Constitu- tion of this Country has , upon ...
... abuse of authority and misdemeanour in office , has come before this Tribunal . The last is that of Lord Maccles field , which happened in the year 1725 . that the oldest process known to the Constitu- tion of this Country has , upon ...
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... abuse of the forms , and a technical course of proceeding , deny justice to so great a part of the world , that claims it at your hands . Your Lordships always had an ample power , and almost unlimited jurisdiction ; you have now a ...
... abuse of the forms , and a technical course of proceeding , deny justice to so great a part of the world , that claims it at your hands . Your Lordships always had an ample power , and almost unlimited jurisdiction ; you have now a ...
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... feared , that partiality may lurk and nestle in the abuse of our forms of pro- ceeding . It is necessary , therefore , that nothing VOL . XIII . C in in that proceeding should appear to mark the slightest trace OF WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ .
... feared , that partiality may lurk and nestle in the abuse of our forms of pro- ceeding . It is necessary , therefore , that nothing VOL . XIII . C in in that proceeding should appear to mark the slightest trace OF WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ .
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... abused , are the powers de- legated to him by the East India Company . The East India Company itself acts under two very dissimilar sorts of powers , derived from two sources very remote from each other . The first source of its power ...
... abused , are the powers de- legated to him by the East India Company . The East India Company itself acts under two very dissimilar sorts of powers , derived from two sources very remote from each other . The first source of its power ...
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Page 399 - I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights and liberties he has subverted; whose properties he has destroyed; whose country he has laid waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice which he has violated. I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured and oppressed, in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation, and condition of life.
Page 396 - Do we want a tribunal ? My lords, no example of antiquity, nothing in the modern world, nothing in the range of human imagination, can supply us with a tribunal like this. My lords, here we see virtually in the mind's eye that sacred majesty of the crown, under whose authority you sit, and whose power you exercise. We see in that invisible authority, what we all feel in reality and life, the beneficent powers and protecting justice of his Majesty.
Page 395 - In the name of the Commons of England, I charge all this villainy upon Warren Hastings, in this last moment of my application to you. My lords, what is it, that we want here to a great act of national justice? Do we want a cause, my lords?
Page 397 - Lords, we have here a new nobility, who have risen, and exalted themselves by various merits, by great military services, which have extended the fame of this country from the rising to the setting sun : we have those, who by...
Page 12 - But the crimes which we charge in these articles, are not lapses, defects, errors, of common human frailty, which, as we know and feel, we can allow for. We charge this offender with no crimes that have not arisen from passions which it is criminal to...
Page 282 - The committee must have a dewan, or executive officer, call him by what name you please. This man in fact has all the revenue, paid at the presidency, at 'his disposal, and can, if he has any abilities, bring all the renters under contribution. It is...
Page 166 - ... 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 351 - Company in the pressing exigencies of their affairs ; that thus a relief to the Company's affairs might be yielded, which, in the common ostensible mode, and under the ordinary forms of government, and publicly, never would be yielded to them. So that bribery with him became a supplement to exaction. The best way of showing that a theoretical system is bad is to show the practical mischiefs that it produces ; because a thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice ; a thing may...
Page 320 - ... crippled those poor, honest, innocent, laborious hands, which had never been raised to their mouths, but with a penurious and scanty proportion of the fruits of their own soil ; but those fruits (denied to the wants of their own children) have for more than fifteen years past furnished the investment for our trade with China, and been sent annually out, and without recompense, to purchase for us that delicate meal, with which your lordships, and all this auditory, and all this country, have begun...
Page 399 - 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 dishonored.