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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 honourable
to ...
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 honourable
to ...
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For if the bloody fields , which they saw and felt , are not sufficient to subdue the
reason of America , ( to use the expressive phrase of a great lord in office , ) it is
not the judicial slaughter , which is made in another hemisphere against their ...
For if the bloody fields , which they saw and felt , are not sufficient to subdue the
reason of America , ( to use the expressive phrase of a great lord in office , ) it is
not the judicial slaughter , which is made in another hemisphere against their ...
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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
gazette ...
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
gazette ...
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When I told them that Lord Howe had no powers to treat , or to promise
satisfaction on any point whatsoever of the controversy , I was hardly credited ; so
strong and general was the desire of terminating this war by the method of ...
When I told them that Lord Howe had no powers to treat , or to promise
satisfaction on any point whatsoever of the controversy , I was hardly credited ; so
strong and general was the desire of terminating this war by the method of ...
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The noble 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 ...
The noble 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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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Publisher | Henry G. Bohn, 1864 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2010 |
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