The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: In the House of Commons, and in Westminster-Hall, Volume 3Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 - Great Britain |
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... fact , which render this suspension of the administration of India absolutely necessary on motives of justice , of policy , of public honour , and public safety . " The House of Commons had not been able to devise a method , by which ...
... fact , which render this suspension of the administration of India absolutely necessary on motives of justice , of policy , of public honour , and public safety . " The House of Commons had not been able to devise a method , by which ...
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... fact , whether the reports spoke truth , or were infamous libels on the characters of innocent men : those who ... facts , would demonstrate the futility of the present bill , which , so far from providing a cure for any evil , was ...
... fact , whether the reports spoke truth , or were infamous libels on the characters of innocent men : those who ... facts , would demonstrate the futility of the present bill , which , so far from providing a cure for any evil , was ...
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... fact . He concluded by moving , " That the House on Monday next do resolve itself into a committee , to inquire into the facts contained in the Re- ports relative to the misgovernment of India . " Mr. Dundas said , that the honourable ...
... fact . He concluded by moving , " That the House on Monday next do resolve itself into a committee , to inquire into the facts contained in the Re- ports relative to the misgovernment of India . " Mr. Dundas said , that the honourable ...
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... fact was incon- trovertible ; but the certain effect which it was meant to produce , and which it did produce , seemed obliterated and vanished for ever . Need he tell the House that Mahomed Caun had written a letter on the ruin of his ...
... fact was incon- trovertible ; but the certain effect which it was meant to produce , and which it did produce , seemed obliterated and vanished for ever . Need he tell the House that Mahomed Caun had written a letter on the ruin of his ...
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... facts stated with regard to this wretched country . Reasons of state undoubtedly might be given in great abundance , and an apology made for every outrage which the strong could exercise over the weak ; but facts were superior to ...
... facts stated with regard to this wretched country . Reasons of state undoubtedly might be given in great abundance , and an apology made for every outrage which the strong could exercise over the weak ; but facts were superior to ...
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Page 360 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with ! Lady M.
Page 478 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 457 - That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished:
Page 70 - See on these ruby lips the trembling breath, These cheeks now fading at the blast of death ; Cold is that breast which warm'd the world before, And those love-darting eyes must roll no more.
Page 333 - ... 2. That it is the opinion of this committee, That it is the right and duty of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain now assembled, and lawfully, fully, and freely, representing all the estates of the people of this realm, to provide the means of supplying the defect of the personal exercise of the royal authority...
Page 130 - Does any of you think that England, so wasted, would, under such a nursing attendance, so rapidly and cheaply recover ? But he is meanly acquainted with either England or India, who does not know that England would a thousand times sooner resume population, fertility, and what ought to be the ultimate secretion from both, revenue, than such a country as the Carnatic. The Carnatic is not by the bounty of nature a fertile soil. The general size of its cattle is proof enough that it is much otherwise....
Page 129 - For eighteen months without intermission this destruction raged from the gates of Madras to the gates of Tanjore; and so completely did these masters in their art, Hyder AH and his more ferocious son, absolve themselves of their impious vow, that when the British armies traversed, as they did, the Carnatic for hundreds of miles in all directions, through the whole line of their march they did not see...
Page 91 - I think I can trace all the calamities of this country to the single source of our not having had steadily before our eyes a general, comprehensive, well-connected, and well-proportioned view of the whole of our dominions, and A just sense of their true bearings and relations.
Page 164 - For appointing Commissioners to inquire into the fees, gratuities, perquisites, and emoluments which are or lately have been received in the several public offices to be therein mentioned; to examine into any abuses which may exist in the same; and to report such observations as shall occur to them for the better concluding and managing the business transacted in the said offices.
Page 433 - French had shown themselves the ablest architects of ruin that had hitherto existed in the world. In that very short space of time they had completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures. They had done their business for us as rivals, in a way in which twenty Ramilies or Blenheims could never have done it.