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... purposes which appear to me so contradictory to all the principles, not only of
the constitutional' policy of Great Britain, but even of that species of hostile justice,
which no asperity of war wholly extinguishes in the minds of a civilized people.
... purposes which appear to me so contradictory to all the principles, not only of
the constitutional' policy of Great Britain, but even of that species of hostile justice,
which no asperity of war wholly extinguishes in the minds of a civilized people.
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But legislators ought to do what lawyers cannot ; for they have no other rules to
bind them , but the great principles of reason and equity , and the general sense
of mankind . These they are bound to obey and follow ; and rather to enlarge and
...
But legislators ought to do what lawyers cannot ; for they have no other rules to
bind them , but the great principles of reason and equity , and the general sense
of mankind . These they are bound to obey and follow ; and rather to enlarge and
...
Page 8
... descriptions , marked out by the magistrate himself , are delivered over by
parliament to this possible malignity , it is not the Habeas Corpus that is
occasionally suspended , but its spirit that is mistaken , and its principle that is
subverted .
... descriptions , marked out by the magistrate himself , are delivered over by
parliament to this possible malignity , it is not the Habeas Corpus that is
occasionally suspended , but its spirit that is mistaken , and its principle that is
subverted .
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Preserving my principles unshaken , I reserve my activity for rational endeavours
; and I hope that my past conduct has given sufficient evidence that if I am a
single day from my place , it is not owing to indolence or love of dissipation .
Preserving my principles unshaken , I reserve my activity for rational endeavours
; and I hope that my past conduct has given sufficient evidence that if I am a
single day from my place , it is not owing to indolence or love of dissipation .
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As hostility and law are not very concordant ideas , every step we have taken in
this business has been made by trampling on some maxim of justice , or some
capital principle of wise government . What precedents were established , and
what ...
As hostility and law are not very concordant ideas , every step we have taken in
this business has been made by trampling on some maxim of justice , or some
capital principle of wise government . What precedents were established , and
what ...
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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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