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Page 4
I could see no fạir , justifiable expedience pleaded to favour this new suspension
of the liberty of the subject . If the English in the colonies can support the
independency , to which they have been unfortunately driven , I suppose nobody
has ...
I could see no fạir , justifiable expedience pleaded to favour this new suspension
of the liberty of the subject . If the English in the colonies can support the
independency , to which they have been unfortunately driven , I suppose nobody
has ...
Page 7
The main operative regulation of the act is to suspend the common law , and the
statute Habeas Corpus , ( the sole securities either for liberty or justice , ) with
regard to all those who have been out of the realm , or on the high seas , within a
...
The main operative regulation of the act is to suspend the common law , and the
statute Habeas Corpus , ( the sole securities either for liberty or justice , ) with
regard to all those who have been out of the realm , or on the high seas , within a
...
Page 8
It would operate as a sort of Call of the nation . It would become every man ' s
immediate and instant concern to be made very sensible of the absolute
necessity of this total eclipse of liberty . They would more carefully advert to every
renewal ...
It would operate as a sort of Call of the nation . It would become every man ' s
immediate and instant concern to be made very sensible of the absolute
necessity of this total eclipse of liberty . They would more carefully advert to every
renewal ...
Page 29
There are people , who have split and anatomised the doctrine of free
government , as if it were an abstract question concerning metaphysical liberty
and necessity ; and not a matter of moral prudence and natural feeling . They
have disputed ...
There are people , who have split and anatomised the doctrine of free
government , as if it were an abstract question concerning metaphysical liberty
and necessity ; and not a matter of moral prudence and natural feeling . They
have disputed ...
Page 30
In this manner the stirrers - up of this contention , not satisfied with distracting our
dependencies and filling them with blood and deavouring to tear up , along with
practical liberty , all the foundations of human society , all equity and justice ...
In this manner the stirrers - up of this contention , not satisfied with distracting our
dependencies and filling them with blood and deavouring to tear up , along with
practical liberty , all the foundations of human society , all equity and justice ...
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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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