The Speeches of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Sketch of His Life, Volume 1H.G. Bohn, 1842 - 548 páginas |
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... Hastings 16. India Bill ...... . 17. - Proceedings against Mr. Hastings 24. - Government of India 29. - National Debt • 30.-Mr. Marsham's Bill for Disfranchising all Voters employed by APRIL 3. - East India Affairs 5. - Supply to be ...
... Hastings 16. India Bill ...... . 17. - Proceedings against Mr. Hastings 24. - Government of India 29. - National Debt • 30.-Mr. Marsham's Bill for Disfranchising all Voters employed by APRIL 3. - East India Affairs 5. - Supply to be ...
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... Hastings 10. - Speech Resumed ..... -Petition relative to the Government of Canada 20. - Proceedings against Mr. Hastings JUNE 3 - Speech on Summing - up the Evidence on the Begum Charge 6. - Speech Resumed 13. - Speech resumed 17 ...
... Hastings 10. - Speech Resumed ..... -Petition relative to the Government of Canada 20. - Proceedings against Mr. Hastings JUNE 3 - Speech on Summing - up the Evidence on the Begum Charge 6. - Speech Resumed 13. - Speech resumed 17 ...
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... Hastings , being all forgiven in the present bill . But that , he said , was a matter which Mr. Hastings's India parlia- mentary interest , no doubt , insisted upon ; and which a minis- ter , depending on such men , did not dare to ...
... Hastings , being all forgiven in the present bill . But that , he said , was a matter which Mr. Hastings's India parlia- mentary interest , no doubt , insisted upon ; and which a minis- ter , depending on such men , did not dare to ...
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... HASTINGS . Major Scott on the first day of this session , 24th of January , 1786 , reminded the house that Mr. Hastings had arrived in England some months ; and he there- fore called upon Mr. Burke to produce the charges which he had ...
... HASTINGS . Major Scott on the first day of this session , 24th of January , 1786 , reminded the house that Mr. Hastings had arrived in England some months ; and he there- fore called upon Mr. Burke to produce the charges which he had ...
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... Hastings as a delinquent of the first magnitude . After going through an infinite variety of topics relative to this part of his subject ; he proceeded to explain the process which he should recommend to the house to pursue . There were ...
... Hastings as a delinquent of the first magnitude . After going through an infinite variety of topics relative to this part of his subject ; he proceeded to explain the process which he should recommend to the house to pursue . There were ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
able gentleman amendment answer appeared argument assertion begged leave Begums blue riband Britain British Burke called Chancellor charge civil list clause committee conduct considered constitution contended debate debt defence duty EAST INDIA BILL exchequer excise ground Hastings heard high bailiff honourable and learned house of commons India bill Ireland jaghires justice kingdom laws learned gentleman Lord John Cavendish Lord Mulgrave Lord North Lord Thurlow Majesty Majesty's manufacture means measure ment Middleton minister motion moved nabob necessary noble lord noes object occasion opinion papers parliament person Pitt present Prince principle proceeding proposed proposition prove question reason resolution respect revenue right honourable friend right honourable gentle right honourable gentleman royal Sheridan declared Sheridan observed SHERIDAN remarked SHERIDAN rose Sir Elijah Impey speech taken thought tion treasury treaty vote Warren Hastings whole wished words
Passagens conhecidas
Página 66 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear : the time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end...
Página 65 - 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.
Página 65 - House; the continuance of the present ministers in trusts of the highest importance and responsibility, is contrary to constitutional principles, and injurious to the interests of his Majesty and his people.
Página 222 - All that he had ever heard, all that he had ever read, when compared with it, dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun;
Página 235 - Hastings's ambition to the simple steadiness of genuine magnanimity. In his mind all was shuffling, ambiguous, dark, insidious, and little ; nothing simple, nothing unmixed; all affected plainness, and actual dissimulation ; a heterogeneous mass of contradictory qualities, with nothing . great but his crimes; and even those contrasted by the littleness of his motives, which at once denoted both his baseness and his meanness, and marked him for a traitor and a trickster.
Página 433 - Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster, lawfully, fully and freely representing all the estates of the people of this realm...
Página vi - I will say more : flattered and encouraged by the right hon. gentleman's panegyric on my talents, if ever I again engage in the compositions he alludes to, I may be tempted to an act of presumption — to attempt an improvement on one of Ben Jonson's best characters, the character of the Angry Boy, in the
Página 418 - If I could not prove, my lords, that those acts of Mr. Middleton were in reality the acts of Mr. Hastings, I should not trouble your lordships by combating them ; but as this part of his criminality can be incontestably ascertained, I appeal to the assembled legislators of this realm to say whether these acts were justifiable...
Página 235 - ... that concerned his employers. He remembered to have heard an honourable and learned gentleman (Mr. Dundas) remark, that there was something in the first frame and constitution of the company, which extended the sordid principles of their origin over all their successive operations ; connecting with their civil policy, and even with their boldest achievements, the meanness of a pedlar, and the profligacy of pirates.
Página 306 - ... it in toto, in point of fact as well as law. The fact not only never could have happened legally, but nerrr did happen in any way whatsoever ; and had, from the beginning, been a base and malicious falsehood.