The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... Lord Coke , the oracle of the English law , conforms to that general sense where he says , that " those things which are of the highest criminality may be of the least disgrace . " The act prepares a sort of masked proceeding , not ...
... Lord Coke , the oracle of the English law , conforms to that general sense where he says , that " those things which are of the highest criminality may be of the least disgrace . " The act prepares a sort of masked proceeding , not ...
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... lord in office , ) it is not the judicial slaughter , which is made in another hemisphere against their universal sense of justice , that will ever reconcile them to the British government . Is I take it for granted , gentlemen , that ...
... lord in office , ) it is not the judicial slaughter , which is made in another hemisphere against their universal sense of justice , that will ever reconcile them to the British government . Is I take it for granted , gentlemen , that ...
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... Lord Howe and General Howe have powers , under an act of parliament , to restore to the king's peace and to free trade any men , or district , which shall submit . Is this done ? We have been over and over informed by the authorized ...
... Lord Howe and General Howe have powers , under an act of parliament , to restore to the king's peace and to free trade any men , or district , which shall submit . Is this done ? We have been over and over informed by the authorized ...
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... Lord Howe . And it is not a little remarkable , that , in proportion as every person showed a zeal for the court measures , he was then earnest in circulating an opinion of the extent of the supposed powers of that commission . When I ...
... Lord Howe . And it is not a little remarkable , that , in proportion as every person showed a zeal for the court measures , he was then earnest in circulating an opinion of the extent of the supposed powers of that commission . When I ...
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... lord in the blue riband , last year , treated all this with contempt . He never could conceive it possible that the French minister of finance could go through that year with a loan of but seventeen hundred thousand pounds ; and that he ...
... lord in the blue riband , last year , treated all this with contempt . He never could conceive it possible that the French minister of finance could go through that year with a loan of but seventeen hundred thousand pounds ; and that he ...
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