... 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... The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 219by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1841 - 548 pages
...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,...those, whom all the shocking catalogue of tortures I hare mentioned could not make to flinch, one of the modes of losing caste for Brahmins, and other principal... | |
| Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...though without any guilt of the party, infer loss of cast ; and when the highest cast, that of the Brahmin, which is not only noble but sacred, is lost,...(which is rare) he survives that miserable degradation Your lordships will not wonder that these monstrous and oppressive demands, exacted with such tortures,... | |
| Great Britain - 1845 - 554 pages
...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,...could not make to flinch, one of the modes of losing caste for Brahmins, and other principal tribes, was practised. It was, to harness a bullock at the... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1845 - 558 pages
...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,...No honest occupation can be followed. He becomes an HaKchare, if (which is rare) he survives that miserable degradation. Upon those, whom all the shocking... | |
| 1851 - 560 pages
...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,...No honest occupation can be followed. He becomes an HaKchore, if (whicn is rare) he survives that miserable degradation. Your lordships will not wonder,... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 640 pages
...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,...No honest occupation can be followed. He becomes an halichorc, if (which is rare) he survives that miserable degradation. Upon those whom all the shocking... | |
| Peter Burke - Great Britain - 1854 - 346 pages
...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,...(which is rare) he survives that miserable degradation " Your lordships will not wonder that these monstrous and oppressive demands, exacted with such tortures,... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1857 - 528 pages
...leprosy, plague, are not so much shunned. No honest occupation can be followed. He becomes an Ilalickore, if (which is rare) he survives that miserable degradation....could not make to flinch, one of the modes of losing caste for Brahmins, and other principal tribes, was practised. It was, to harness a bullock at the... | |
| Francis Rawdon-Hastings Marquess of Hastings - Governors general - 1857 - 522 pages
...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,...could not make to flinch, one of the modes of losing caste for Brahmins, and other principal tribes, was practised. It was, to harness a bullock at the... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1857 - 536 pages
...excommunication. It is a pollution even to touch him ; and if he touches any of his old caste, they are j ustified in putting him to death. Contagion, leprosy, plague,...No honest occupation can be followed. He becomes an Halicliore, if (which is rare) he survives that miserable degradation. Upon those whom all the shocking... | |
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