Think, my Lords, of this state of things,--and I wish it never to pass from your minds that I have called him the captain-general of the whole host of actors in Indian iniquity, under whom that host was arrayed, disciplined, and paid.
Burke characterizes a figure as the leader of corruption in India, emphasizing the organized nature of the wrongdoing.
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But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.
They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.
If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.
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