The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 3Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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Edmund Burke. authority ; the power might even be employed in defiance of the authority , if the case should require , as in truth it often did require , a proceeding of that degree of boldness . The Company had put him into possession ...
Edmund Burke. authority ; the power might even be employed in defiance of the authority , if the case should require , as in truth it often did require , a proceeding of that degree of boldness . The Company had put him into possession ...
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... authority is given to any persons by name to do some particular act , that no others , by virtue of general powers , can obtain a legal title to intrude themselves into that trust , and to ex- ercise those special functions in their ...
... authority is given to any persons by name to do some particular act , that no others , by virtue of general powers , can obtain a legal title to intrude themselves into that trust , and to ex- ercise those special functions in their ...
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... authority to dispense with either the substance or the mode of inquiry prescribed by the act of Parliament . If they had not , where in the act did the Board of Control acquire that capacity ? Indeed , it was impossible they should ...
... authority to dispense with either the substance or the mode of inquiry prescribed by the act of Parliament . If they had not , where in the act did the Board of Control acquire that capacity ? Indeed , it was impossible they should ...
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... authority for a suspicion ( at the very least ) of everything relative to the great fortunes made at Madras . What is that authority ? Why , no other than the standing authority for all the claims which the ministry has thought fit to ...
... authority for a suspicion ( at the very least ) of everything relative to the great fortunes made at Madras . What is that authority ? Why , no other than the standing authority for all the claims which the ministry has thought fit to ...
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... authority of gov- ernment should interpose in favor of claims whose very foundation was a defiance of that authority , and whose object and end was its entire subversion . It may be said that this letter was written by the Nabob of ...
... authority of gov- ernment should interpose in favor of claims whose very foundation was a defiance of that authority , and whose object and end was its entire subversion . It may be said that this letter was written by the Nabob of ...
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