The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 15C. and J. Rivington, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... exercise any censorial magistracy seem in their language to compromise with crimes and cri- minals , by expressing no horror of the one or detestation of the other , the world will naturally think that they act merely to acquit ...
... exercise any censorial magistracy seem in their language to compromise with crimes and cri- minals , by expressing no horror of the one or detestation of the other , the world will naturally think that they act merely to acquit ...
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... exercise ; ) " I fear , I say , that this sovereignty will be " found a burden instead of a benefit , a 66 heavy clog rather than a precious gem to its " present possessors ; I mean , unless the whole " of our territory in that quarter ...
... exercise ; ) " I fear , I say , that this sovereignty will be " found a burden instead of a benefit , a 66 heavy clog rather than a precious gem to its " present possessors ; I mean , unless the whole " of our territory in that quarter ...
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... exercise of arbitrary power . Το " all this I strongly alluded in the minutes I " delivered in Council , when the treaty with " the new Vizier was on foot in 1775 ; and I " wished to make Cheyt Sing independent , be- " cause in India ...
... exercise of arbitrary power . Το " all this I strongly alluded in the minutes I " delivered in Council , when the treaty with " the new Vizier was on foot in 1775 ; and I " wished to make Cheyt Sing independent , be- " cause in India ...
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... exercise this arbitrary power ; and that if any such Act should in future be made , it would be mischievous and ruinous to our empire in India . Thus he has at once repealed all preceding Acts , he has annulled by prospect every future ...
... exercise this arbitrary power ; and that if any such Act should in future be made , it would be mischievous and ruinous to our empire in India . Thus he has at once repealed all preceding Acts , he has annulled by prospect every future ...
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... exercise . We My Lords , the Commons of Great Britain are not disposed to resort to the ridiculous relations of travellers , or to the wild systems which inge- nious men have thought proper to build on their authority ; we will take ...
... exercise . We My Lords , the Commons of Great Britain are not disposed to resort to the ridiculous relations of travellers , or to the wild systems which inge- nious men have thought proper to build on their authority ; we will take ...
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