I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights and liberties he has subverted; whose properties he has destroyed; whose country he has laid waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice... The Private Journal of the Marquess of Hastings - Page 231by Francis Rawdon-Hastings Marquess of Hastings - 1857Full view - About this book
| Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1883 - 518 pages
...Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonored. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights, and liberties he has subverted;...every age, rank, situation, and condition of life. —Burke. XCVIII.—PUBLIC VIRTUE. I HOPE that in all that relates to personal firmness, all that concerns... | |
| Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1883 - 518 pages
...Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonored. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights, and liberties he has subverted...every age, rank, situation, and condition of life. — Burke. XC VIII. —PUBLIC VIRTUE. I HOPE that in all that relates to personal firmness, all that... | |
| Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...waste and desolate. "I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice which has violated. " I impeach him in the name of human...every age, rank, situation, and condition of life. "And I conjure this high and sacred court to let not these pleadings be heard in vain!" The impeachment... | |
| English literature - 1887 - 958 pages
...rights, and liberties he has subverted, whose properties he has destroyed, whose country he has hud waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name and...every age, rank, situation, and condition of life. In April, 1789, Bnrke delivered another speech against Hastings, in which ho opened the charge of having... | |
| Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - Readers - 1890 - 402 pages
...Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonored. I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights, and liberties, he has subverted...every age, rank, situation, and condition of life. THE LOST LEADER. ROBERT BROWNING. JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick... | |
| Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - Readers - 1890 - 516 pages
...eternal laws of justice which he has violated. I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, io which he has cruelly outraged, injured, and oppressed,...every age, rank, situation, and condition of life. LXIV. AMERICA AND THE MOTHER-COUNTRY. BY WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE.' THERE is no parallel in all the... | |
| John Goss - Oratory - 1891 - 280 pages
...whose laws, rights, and liberties he has subverted, whose properties he has destroyed, whose countries he has laid waste and desolate. " I impeach him in...every age, rank, situation, and condition of life." This is the peroration of the address of Henry Grattan in moving the Declaration of Right in the Irish... | |
| Israel Smith Clare - World history - 1893 - 766 pages
...has destroyed ; whose country he has laid waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name and by the virtue of those eternal laws of justice which he has...every age, rank, situation and condition of life." The great trial of Warren Hastings at the bar of the House of Lords lingered eight years, during which... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 704 pages
...that, ordered by the Commons, — I impeach Warren Hastings, Esq., of high crimes and misdemeanours. I impeach him in the name of the Commons of Great Britain...every age, rank, situation, and condition of life. (From Speech in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq.) WILLIAM COWPER [In the life of Cowper (1731-1800)... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Readers - 1894 - 586 pages
...of all the Commons (ie tlie people) of Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonoured. I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal...every age, rank, situation, and condition of life. LORD BROUGHAM ON NEGRO EMANCIPATION. MY LORDS, — I have had my attention directed, within the last... | |
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