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That you may be enabled to enter into the true spirit of the present law , it is
necessary , gentlemen , to apprize you , that there is an act ; made so long ago as
in the reign of Henry the Eighthi , before tlie existence or thought of any English ...
That you may be enabled to enter into the true spirit of the present law , it is
necessary , gentlemen , to apprize you , that there is an act ; made so long ago as
in the reign of Henry the Eighthi , before tlie existence or thought of any English ...
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But when men , in particular 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 ...
But when men , in particular 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 ...
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In declaring for some time my usual strict attendance , I do not in the least
condemn the spirit of those gentlemen , who , with a just confidence in their
abilities , ( in which I claim a sort of share from my love and admiration of them )
were of ...
In declaring for some time my usual strict attendance , I do not in the least
condemn the spirit of those gentlemen , who , with a just confidence in their
abilities , ( in which I claim a sort of share from my love and admiration of them )
were of ...
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Is not the benignity of two commissioners , naturally most humane and generous
men , some way fettered by instructions , equally against their dispositions and
spirit of parliamentary faith ; when Mr . Tryon , vaunting of the fidelity of the city in
...
Is not the benignity of two commissioners , naturally most humane and generous
men , some way fettered by instructions , equally against their dispositions and
spirit of parliamentary faith ; when Mr . Tryon , vaunting of the fidelity of the city in
...
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It is however a part of the constitution , and may be called out into act and energy
, whenever there is occasion ; and whenever those , who conjure up that spirit ,
will choose to abide the consequences . It is wise to permit its legal existence ; it ...
It is however a part of the constitution , and may be called out into act and energy
, whenever there is occasion ; and whenever those , who conjure up that spirit ,
will choose to abide the consequences . It is wise to permit its legal existence ; it ...
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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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