The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... never done without dangerously disor- dering the whole frame of jurisprudence . Though piracy may be , in the eye of the law , a less offence than treason ;: yet as both are , in effect , punished with the same death , the same ...
... never done without dangerously disor- dering the whole frame of jurisprudence . Though piracy may be , in the eye of the law , a less offence than treason ;: yet as both are , in effect , punished with the same death , the same ...
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... never remember to have heard of anything like it in any time or country . The second professed purpose of the act is , to detain in England for trial those who shall commit high treason in America . That you may be enabled to enter into ...
... never remember to have heard of anything like it in any time or country . The second professed purpose of the act is , to detain in England for trial those who shall commit high treason in America . That you may be enabled to enter into ...
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... never be tried according to 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 ...
... never be tried according to 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 ...
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... never could consider the convulsions of a great em- pire , not disturbed by a little disseminated faction , but divided by whole communities and provinces , and entire legal representatives of a people , as fit matter of discussion ...
... never could consider the convulsions of a great em- pire , not disturbed by a little disseminated faction , but divided by whole communities and provinces , and entire legal representatives of a people , as fit matter of discussion ...
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... never see any revenue from America . Some increase of the means of corruption , without ease of the public burthens , is the very best that can happen . Is it for this that we are at war ; and in such a war ? As to the difficulties of ...
... never see any revenue from America . Some increase of the means of corruption , without ease of the public burthens , is the very best that can happen . Is it for this that we are at war ; and in such a war ? As to the difficulties of ...
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