The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 15C. and J. Rivington, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... crime of a very heinous nature , and most destructive in its con- sequences , because it tended to lower them in the opinion of those who ought to feel a proper reverence and respect for their high and im- portant stations ; and that ...
... crime of a very heinous nature , and most destructive in its con- sequences , because it tended to lower them in the opinion of those who ought to feel a proper reverence and respect for their high and im- portant stations ; and that ...
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... crime . I confess I tremble , when I consider that your judgment is now going to be passed , not on the Culprit at your bar , but upon the House of Commons itself , and upon the publick justice of this King- dom , as represented in this ...
... crime . I confess I tremble , when I consider that your judgment is now going to be passed , not on the Culprit at your bar , but upon the House of Commons itself , and upon the publick justice of this King- dom , as represented in this ...
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... crimes ; thus inducing all parties to separate in a kind of good humour , as if they had nothing more than a verbal dispute to settle , or a slight quarrel over a table to compromise . All this may now be done at the expense of the ...
... crimes ; thus inducing all parties to separate in a kind of good humour , as if they had nothing more than a verbal dispute to settle , or a slight quarrel over a table to compromise . All this may now be done at the expense of the ...
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... crime ; that half virtue , which , like the ambiguous animal that flies about in the twilight of a compromise between day and night , is to a just man's eye an odious night , 4 SPEECH IN THE IMPEACHMENT One of the counsel for the ...
... crime ; that half virtue , which , like the ambiguous animal that flies about in the twilight of a compromise between day and night , is to a just man's eye an odious night , 4 SPEECH IN THE IMPEACHMENT One of the counsel for the ...
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... crimes which he stands accused of by us . We have not come here to you , in the rash heat of a day , with that fervor which sometimes prevails in popular assemblies , and frequently misleads them . No ; if we have been guilty of error ...
... crimes which he stands accused of by us . We have not come here to you , in the rash heat of a day , with that fervor which sometimes prevails in popular assemblies , and frequently misleads them . No ; if we have been guilty of error ...
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