The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... justice , which no asperity of war wholly ex- tinguishes in the minds of a civilized people . It seems to have in view two capital objects ; the first , to enable administration to confine , as long as it shall think pro- per , those ...
... justice , which no asperity of war wholly ex- tinguishes in the minds of a civilized people . It seems to have in view two capital objects ; the first , to enable administration to confine , as long as it shall think pro- per , those ...
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... justice of the kingdom , and by no means necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If Lord Balmerino , in the last re- bellion , had driven off the cattle of twenty clans , I should have thought it would have been a scandalous ...
... justice of the kingdom , and by no means necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If Lord Balmerino , in the last re- bellion , had driven off the cattle of twenty clans , I should have thought it would have been a scandalous ...
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... justice . Far 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 ap- peared to me most unjust and most ...
... justice . Far 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 ap- peared to me most unjust and most ...
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... justice . For if the bloody fields , which they saw and felt , are not sufficient to subdue the reason of America , ( to use the expressive phrase of a great lord in office , ) it is not the judicial slaughter , which is made in another ...
... justice . For if the bloody fields , which they saw and felt , are not sufficient to subdue the reason of America , ( to use the expressive phrase of a great lord in office , ) it is not the judicial slaughter , which is made in another ...
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... justice . These strange incongruities must ever perplex those who confound the unhappiness of civil dissensions with the crime of treason . Whenever a rebellion really and truly exists , which is as easily known in fact as it is ...
... justice . These strange incongruities must ever perplex those who confound the unhappiness of civil dissensions with the crime of treason . Whenever a rebellion really and truly exists , which is as easily known in fact as it is ...
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