The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volumen3Little, Brown,, 1877 |
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... stand at the very outset , and boldly refuses all Parliamentary information . Let him admit but one step towards inquiry , and he is undone . You must be ignorant , or he cannot be safe . But before his curtain is let down , and the ...
... stand at the very outset , and boldly refuses all Parliamentary information . Let him admit but one step towards inquiry , and he is undone . You must be ignorant , or he cannot be safe . But before his curtain is let down , and the ...
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... standing authority for all the claims which the ministry has thought fit to provide for , the grand debtor , -the Nabob of Arcot himself . Hear that prince , in the letter written to the Court of Direc- tors , at the precise period ...
... standing authority for all the claims which the ministry has thought fit to provide for , the grand debtor , -the Nabob of Arcot himself . Hear that prince , in the letter written to the Court of Direc- tors , at the precise period ...
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... stand the fairest of the whole ; for , whatever may be my suspicions concern- ing a part of it , I can convict it of nothing worse than the most enormous usury . But I can convict , upon the spot , the right honorable gentleman of the ...
... stand the fairest of the whole ; for , whatever may be my suspicions concern- ing a part of it , I can convict it of nothing worse than the most enormous usury . But I can convict , upon the spot , the right honorable gentleman of the ...
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... stand him in good stead . He has been made to believe that his private creditors have power and interest to overrule the Court of Directors . ” * The Nabob was not misinformed . The private creditors instantly qualified a vast number of ...
... stand him in good stead . He has been made to believe that his private creditors have power and interest to overrule the Court of Directors . ” * The Nabob was not misinformed . The private creditors instantly qualified a vast number of ...
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... stand recorded , they are in substance these . The Nabob of Arcot , as soon as he had thrown off the superiority of this country by means of these creditors , kept up a great army which he never paid . Of course his soldiers were ...
... stand recorded , they are in substance these . The Nabob of Arcot , as soon as he had thrown off the superiority of this country by means of these creditors , kept up a great army which he never paid . Of course his soldiers were ...
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Página 359 - Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure ; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Página 63 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and, amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, — were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile...
Página 296 - The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?
Página 64 - 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 Ali 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 one man, not one woman, not one child, not one four-footed beast of any description whatever. One...
Página 245 - Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ' to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 'to execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.
Página 252 - Parliament was made intituled an Act for declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and for settling the succession of the crown...
Página 347 - Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders' a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
Página 274 - By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives.
Página 63 - ... barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together was no protection. He became at length so confident of his force, so collected in his might, that he made no secret whatsoever of his dreadful resolution. Having terminated his disputes with every enemy, and every rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the nabob of Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add...
Página 355 - ... individual in public acts, is small indeed; the operation of opinion being in the inverse ratio to the number of those who abuse power. Their own approbation of their own acts has to them the appearance of a public judgment in their favour. A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. As it is the most shameless, it is also the most fearless.