The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... hands of the crown . They are therefore to be detained in prison , under the criminal description of piracy , to a future trial and ignominious punishment , whenever cir- cumstances shall make it convenient to execute vengeance on them ...
... hands of the crown . They are therefore to be detained in prison , under the criminal description of piracy , to a future trial and ignominious punishment , whenever cir- cumstances shall make it convenient to execute vengeance on them ...
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... hands at the end of the troubles , in my opinion we shall ex- hibit to the world as indecent a piece of injustice as ever civil fury has produced . If the prisoners , who have been exchanged , have not by that exchange been virtually ...
... hands at the end of the troubles , in my opinion we shall ex- hibit to the world as indecent a piece of injustice as ever civil fury has produced . If the prisoners , who have been exchanged , have not by that exchange been virtually ...
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... hands , is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself . But one great advantage to the support of authority attends such an amicable and protecting connexion , that those who have conferred favours obtain influence ; and from the ...
... hands , is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself . But one great advantage to the support of authority attends such an amicable and protecting connexion , that those who have conferred favours obtain influence ; and from the ...
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... hands of government to reduce them . On the principle of this argument , the more mischiefs we suffer from any administration , the more our trust in it is to be confirmed . Let them but once get us into a war , and then their power is ...
... hands of government to reduce them . On the principle of this argument , the more mischiefs we suffer from any administration , the more our trust in it is to be confirmed . Let them but once get us into a war , and then their power is ...
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... hands ; and yet I have lived to see prudence and conformity to circum- stances wholly set at nought in our late controversies , and treated as if they were the most contemptible and irrational of all things . I have heard it a hundred ...
... hands ; and yet I have lived to see prudence and conformity to circum- stances wholly set at nought in our late controversies , and treated as if they were the most contemptible and irrational of all things . I have heard it a hundred ...
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