On the record
Hastings set up cut and hacked the limbs of British subjects in the most cruel and perfidious manner, threw them into wells, and polluted the waters of the country with British blood.
Said by
Edmund Burke
Source
gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Hastings set up cut and hacked the limbs of British subjects in the most cruel and perfidious manner, threw them into…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke details the horrific actions taken by Hastings against British subjects, illustrating the violence of the conflict.
Share
More from Edmund Burke
Jan 1, 1790
I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…
Jan 1, 1790
They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.
Jan 1, 1790
But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.
Jan 1, 1790
Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…
Other voices in this conversation
