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... natural distinction of things, but the order of crimes :: which, whether by putting
them from a higher part of the scale to the lower, or from the lower to the higher, is
never done without dangerously disordering the whole frame' of jurisprudence.
... natural distinction of things, but the order of crimes :: which, whether by putting
them from a higher part of the scale to the lower, or from the lower to the higher, is
never done without dangerously disordering the whole frame' of jurisprudence.
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Though piracy may be , in the eye of the law , a less offence than treason ; : yet as
both are , in effect , punished with the same death , the same forfeiture , and the
same corruption of blood , I never would take from any fellow - creature ...
Though piracy may be , in the eye of the law , a less offence than treason ; : yet as
both are , in effect , punished with the same death , the same forfeiture , and the
same corruption of blood , I never would take from any fellow - creature ...
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I therefore could never reconcile myself to the bill I send you ; which is expressly
provided to remove all inconveniences from the establishment of a mode of trial ,
which has ever appeared to me most unjust and most unconstitutional . Far from
...
I therefore could never reconcile myself to the bill I send you ; which is expressly
provided to remove all inconveniences from the establishment of a mode of trial ,
which has ever appeared to me most unjust and most unconstitutional . Far from
...
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In times of high proceeding it is never the faction of the predominant power that is
in danger : for no tyranny chastises its own instruments . It is the obnoxious and
the suspected who want the protection of law ; and there is nothing to bridle the ...
In times of high proceeding it is never the faction of the predominant power that is
in danger : for no tyranny chastises its own instruments . It is the obnoxious and
the suspected who want the protection of law ; and there is nothing to bridle the ...
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You will never see any revenue from America . Some increase of the means of
corruption , without ease of the public burthens , is the very best that can happen .
Is it for this that we are at war ; and in such a war ? As to the difficulties of laying ...
You will never see any revenue from America . Some increase of the means of
corruption , without ease of the public burthens , is the very best that can happen .
Is it for this that we are at war ; and in such a war ? As to the difficulties of laying ...
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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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