The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 7C. C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 - Great Britain |
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... course of justice to posterity , even if it had not been supported by any example in the practice of our fore- fathers . First , to speak of the process : we are to inform your lord- ships , that , besides that long previous ...
... course of justice to posterity , even if it had not been supported by any example in the practice of our fore- fathers . First , to speak of the process : we are to inform your lord- ships , that , besides that long previous ...
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... course is differ- ent . We have not brought before you an obscure offender , who , when his insignificance and weakness are weighed against the power of the prosecution , gives even to public justice something of the appearance of ...
... course is differ- ent . We have not brought before you an obscure offender , who , when his insignificance and weakness are weighed against the power of the prosecution , gives even to public justice something of the appearance of ...
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... course of proceeding , deny justice to so great a part of the world , that claims it at your hands . Your lord- ships always had an ample power , and almost unlimited juris- diction ; you have now a boundless object . It is not from ...
... course of proceeding , deny justice to so great a part of the world , that claims it at your hands . Your lord- ships always had an ample power , and almost unlimited juris- diction ; you have now a boundless object . It is not from ...
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... course of that imperial justice , which you owe to the people , that call to you from all parts of a great disjointed world . For , situated as this kingdom is , an object , thank God , of envy to the rest of the nations ; its conduct ...
... course of that imperial justice , which you owe to the people , that call to you from all parts of a great disjointed world . For , situated as this kingdom is , an object , thank God , of envy to the rest of the nations ; its conduct ...
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... course will be apprized , that this cause is not what occurs every day in the ordinary round of mu- nicipal affairs ; that it has a relation to many things , that it touches many points in many places , which are wholly re- moved from ...
... course will be apprized , that this cause is not what occurs every day in the ordinary round of mu- nicipal affairs ; that it has a relation to many things , that it touches many points in many places , which are wholly re- moved from ...
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Page 114 - 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 265 - My Lords, these are the securities which we have in all the constituent parts of the body of this House. We know them, we reckon, we rest upon them, and commit safely the interests of India and of humanity into your hands. Therefore it is with confidence, that, ordered by the Commons, I impeach Warren Hastings, Esquire, of high crimes and misdemeanors. 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...
Page 526 - by impeachments for high crimes and misdemeanors, by *' writing or speaking, the particular words supposed to be " criminal are necessary to be expressly specified in such
Page 523 - Parliament hath a judicial place, and can be no witness; and this is the reason that judges ought not to give any opinion of a matter of parliament, because it is not to be decided by the common laws, but secundum legem et consuetudinem parliament, and so the judges in divers parliaments have confessed.
Page 214 - That the punishments, inflicted upon the ryotts both of Rungpore and Dinagepore for non-payment, were in many instances of such a nature, that I would rather wish to draw a veil over them, than shock your feelings by the detail. But that however disagreeable the task may be to myself, it is absolutely necessary for the sake of justice, humanity, and the honor of government, that they should be exposed, to be prevented in future.
Page 219 - ... his parents; his wife is no longer his wife; his children, no longer his, are no longer to regard him as their father. It is something far worse than complete outlawry, complete attainder, and universal excommunication. It is a pollution even to touch him; and if he touches any of his old caste, they are justified in putting him to death. Contagion, leprosy, plague, are not so much shunned. No honest occupation can be followed. He becomes an Halichore, if (which is rare) he survives that miserable...
Page 346 - quia tanti quantum habeas sis' : quid facias illi? iubeas miserum esse, libenter quatenus id facit: ut quidam memoratur Athenis sordidus ac dives, populi contemnere voces 65 sic solitus : 'populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.
Page 545 - Accordingly, on the same day, "It is declared and ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled, that the...
Page 218 - The women thus treated lost their caste. My lords, we are not here to commend or blame the institutions and prejudices of a whole race of people, radicated in them by a long succession of ages, on which no reason or argument, on which no vicissitudes of things, no mixtures of men, or foreign conquest, have been able to make the smallest impression.
Page 116 - Law and arbitrary power are in eternal enmity. Name me a magistrate, and I will name property; name me power, and 1 will name protection. It is a contradiction in terms, it is blasphemy in religion, it is wickedness in politics, to say that any man can have arbitrary power.