The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

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Cosimo, Inc., 2008 M01 1 - 512 pages
This 12-volume set contains the complete life works of EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797), Irish political writer and statesman. Educated at a Quaker boarding school and at Trinity College in Dublin, Burke's eloquence gained him a high position in Britain's Whig party, and he was active in public life. He supported limitations on the power of the monarch and believed that the British people should have a greater say in their government. In general, Burke spoke out against the persecutions perpetuated by the British Empire on its colonies, including America, Ireland, and India. Burke's speeches and writings influenced the great thinkers of his day, including America's Founding Fathers. In Volume IX, readers will find: . "Articles of Charge of High Crimes and Misdemeanors Against Warren Hastings, Esq." . "Speeches in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq."

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LIBEL ON THE Court of DirectORS
228
FrzoOLA KHÂN
266
RIGHTS OF FYZOOLA KHAN UNDER
275
THANKS OF THE BOARD TO FYZOOLA
286
PECUNIARY COMMUTATION OF
306
APPENDIX TO THE EIGHTH AND SIXTEENTH CHARGES
319
SPEECHES IN THE IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS
327
Copyright

THE MOGUL DELIVERED UP TO THE MAHRAT
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Page 455 - He have arbitrary power ! My Lords, the East India Company have not arbitrary power to give him ; the king has no arbitrary power to give him ; your Lordships have not ; nor the Commons, nor the whole legislature. We have no arbitrary power to give, because arbitrary power is a thing which neither any man can hold nor any man can give.
Page 455 - ... to draw their principles from the corrupt practice of any man whatever. Was there ever heard, or could it be conceived, that a governor would dare to heap up all the evil practices, all the cruelties, oppressions, extortions, corruptions, briberies, of all the ferocious usurpers, desperate robbers, thieves, cheats, and jugglers, that ever had office, from one end of Asia to another, and, consolidating all this mass of the crimes and absurdities of barbarous domination into one code, establish...
Page 331 - ... justice. For we are men, my lords ; and men are so made, that it is not only the greatness of danger, but the value of the adventure. which measures the degree of our concern in every undertaking. I solemnly assure your lordships, that no standard is sufficient to estimate the value, which the Commons set upon the event of the cause they now bring before you. My lords, the business of this day is not the business of this man — it is not solely, whether the prisoner at the bar be found innocent,...
Page 457 - ... injustice into a just title, by which it may rule others at its pleasure. By conquest, which is a more immediate designation of the hand of God, the conqueror succeeds to all the painful duties and subordination to the power of God, which belonged to the sovereign, whom he has displaced, just as if he had come in by the positive law of some descent, or some election. To this at least he is strictly bound — he ought to govern them, as he governs his own subjects.
Page 343 - ... there were no tribunals at all. In my humble opinion, it would be better a thousand times to give all complainants the short answer the Dey of Algiers gave a British ambassador, representing certain grievances suffered by the British merchants, — " My friend," (as the story is related by Dr.
Page 379 - If we un dertake to govern the inhabitants of such a country, we must gOvern them upon their own principles and maxims, and not upon ours. We must not think to force them into the narrow circle of our ideas ; we must extend ours to take in their system of opinions and rites, and the necessities which result from both : all change oa their part is absolutely impracticable. We have more versatility of character and manners, and it is we who must conform.
Page 266 - The governour-general and council are required and directed to pay due obedience to all such orders as they shall receive from the court of directors of the said united company, and to correspond from time to time, and constantly and diligently transmit to the said court an exact particular of all advices or intelligence, and of all transactions and matters whatsoever, that shall come to their knowledge, relating to the government, commerce, revenues, or interest of the said united company.

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Born in Ireland in 1729, Edmund Burke was an English statesman, author, and orator who is best remembered as a formidable advocate for those who were victims of injustice. He was the son of a Dublin lawyer and had also trained to practice law. In the 1760s, Burke was elected to the House of Commons from the Whig party. Burke spent most of his career in Parliament as a member of the Royal Opposition, who was not afraid of controversy, as shown by his support for the American Revolution and for Irish/Catholic rights. His best-known work is Reflections on the French Revolution (1790). Some other notable works are On Conciliation with the American Colonies (1775) and Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788). Edmund Burke died in 1797.

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