The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 10Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... character of this country ; and therefore , in this House , which is eminently the guar- dian of the purity of all the offices of this kingdom , he ought to be called eminently and peculiarly to account . There are many things ...
... character of this country ; and therefore , in this House , which is eminently the guar- dian of the purity of all the offices of this kingdom , he ought to be called eminently and peculiarly to account . There are many things ...
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... character . But in his defence we have him quite in another char- acter , no longer the frugal , attentive servant , bred to business , bred to book - keeping , as all the Compa- ny's servants are ; he now knows nothing of his own ...
... character . But in his defence we have him quite in another char- acter , no longer the frugal , attentive servant , bred to business , bred to book - keeping , as all the Compa- ny's servants are ; he now knows nothing of his own ...
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... character and evil principles , and if this should be perfectly known to himself , and of public notoriety to the rest of the world , then another strong responsibility attaches on him for the acts of those persons . Governors , we know ...
... character and evil principles , and if this should be perfectly known to himself , and of public notoriety to the rest of the world , then another strong responsibility attaches on him for the acts of those persons . Governors , we know ...
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... character , ) — my Lords , when all the nobility , some of whom have borne the rank and port of princes , all the gentry , all the free- holders of the country , had their estates in that man- ner confiscated , - that is , either given ...
... character , ) — my Lords , when all the nobility , some of whom have borne the rank and port of princes , all the gentry , all the free- holders of the country , had their estates in that man- ner confiscated , - that is , either given ...
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... character which would at least justify the Council in making some inquiry into charges made by him . First , he was perfectly competent to make them , because he was in the management of those affairs from which Mr. Hastings is supposed ...
... character which would at least justify the Council in making some inquiry into charges made by him . First , he was perfectly competent to make them , because he was in the management of those affairs from which Mr. Hastings is supposed ...
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