The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 12Little, Brown,, 1869 - Great Britain |
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Page 22
... duty and my personal attachment to you , that the enforcing the measure you have pro- posed would be productive of an open rupture be- tween us and the Nabob ; nay , that the first neces- sary step towards carrying it into effect must ...
... duty and my personal attachment to you , that the enforcing the measure you have pro- posed would be productive of an open rupture be- tween us and the Nabob ; nay , that the first neces- sary step towards carrying it into effect must ...
Page 25
... duty , whose feelings , and whose habits made them the natural protectors of the people . - My Lords , we here see a body of usurers put into possession of all the estates of the nobility : let us now see if this act was necessary ...
... duty , whose feelings , and whose habits made them the natural protectors of the people . - My Lords , we here see a body of usurers put into possession of all the estates of the nobility : let us now see if this act was necessary ...
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... duty imposed upon him of entering into a complete justification of his conduct : he might have justified it by every civil , and by every criminal mode of pro- cess . Did he do this ? No. Your Lordships have in evidence the manner ...
... duty imposed upon him of entering into a complete justification of his conduct : he might have justified it by every civil , and by every criminal mode of pro- cess . Did he do this ? No. Your Lordships have in evidence the manner ...
Page 51
... duty which has ever occurred in my office ; and the anxiety , the hopes and fears , which have alternately agitated my mind , cannot be de- scribed or conceived but by those who have been wit- ness to what has passed in the course of ...
... duty which has ever occurred in my office ; and the anxiety , the hopes and fears , which have alternately agitated my mind , cannot be de- scribed or conceived but by those who have been wit- ness to what has passed in the course of ...
Page 57
... - healthy , by the number obliged to be on duty in so confined a place at this hot season of the year , and so situated , that no reduction can with propriety be made from their guard , it being at such a SPEECH IN REPLY . FIFTH DAY . 57.
... - healthy , by the number obliged to be on duty in so confined a place at this hot season of the year , and so situated , that no reduction can with propriety be made from their guard , it being at such a SPEECH IN REPLY . FIFTH DAY . 57.
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