1 Sentences With "graspings"

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These are the > grand sepulchres built by ambition; but by the ambition of an insatiable > benevolence, which, not contented with reigning in the dispensation of > happiness during the contracted term of human life, had strained, with all > the reachings and graspings of a vivacious mind, to extend the dominion of > their bounty beyond the limits of nature, and to perpetuate themselves > through generations of generations, the guardians, the protectors, the > nourishers of mankind.McCue, p. 155. Burke held that the advent of British dominion, in particular the conduct of the East India Company, had destroyed much that was good in these traditions and that as a consequence of this and the lack of new customs to replace them the Indians were suffering. He set about establishing a set of British expectations, whose moral foundation would in his opinion warrant the empire.McCue, p. 156. On 4 April 1786, Burke presented the House of Commons with the Article of Charge of High Crimes and Misdemeanors against Hastings.