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Excerpt from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 8: Speeches on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, and Letters
My lords, we have brought the demeanour Of the prisoner before you for another reason. We are desirous that your lordships ma be enabled to estimate, from the proud pre sum tion an audacity of the criminal at your bar, when he strings before the most awful tribunal in the world, accused by a body representing no less than the sacred voice Of his comm - what he must have been when placed in the seat of pri and power. What must have been the insolence Of that man towards the natives of India, who, when called here to answer for enormous crimes, presumes to behave, not with the firmness of innocence, but with the audacity and hardness Of guilt?
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