The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 10Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... thing might be said for him for setting up so wild , absurd , irrational , and wicked a system , something might be said to qualify the act from the intention ; but it is singular in this man , that , at the time he tells you he acted ...
... thing might be said for him for setting up so wild , absurd , irrational , and wicked a system , something might be said to qualify the act from the intention ; but it is singular in this man , that , at the time he tells you he acted ...
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... things which are new in the world ; for there never was a man , I be- lieve , who contended for arbitrary power ... thing that is remarkable and singular in the principles upon which the Governor - General acted is , that , when he ...
... things which are new in the world ; for there never was a man , I be- lieve , who contended for arbitrary power ... thing that is remarkable and singular in the principles upon which the Governor - General acted is , that , when he ...
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... thing which distinguishes this nation eminently above another , it is , that in its offices at home , both judicial ... things , undoubtedly , in crimes , which make them frightful and odious ; but bribery , filthy hands , a chief ...
... thing which distinguishes this nation eminently above another , it is , that in its offices at home , both judicial ... things , undoubtedly , in crimes , which make them frightful and odious ; but bribery , filthy hands , a chief ...
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... thing . Or by a wise and incorrupt administra- tion of justice ? No. Has he enlarged the boundary of our government ? No : there are but too strong proofs of his lessening it . But his pretensions to merit are , that he squeezed more ...
... thing . Or by a wise and incorrupt administra- tion of justice ? No. Has he enlarged the boundary of our government ? No : there are but too strong proofs of his lessening it . But his pretensions to merit are , that he squeezed more ...
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... powers , under any name or description , except those things which were public- ly and openly taken for the use of the Company , — namely , territories or sums of money which might be SPEECH IN OPENING . THIRD DAY . 9.
... powers , under any name or description , except those things which were public- ly and openly taken for the use of the Company , — namely , territories or sums of money which might be SPEECH IN OPENING . THIRD DAY . 9.
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