The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... proceeding , not honourable to the justice of the kingdom , and by no means necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If Lord Balmerino , in the last re- bellion , had driven off the cattle of twenty clans , I should have ...
... proceeding , not honourable to the justice of the kingdom , and by no means necessary for its safety . I cannot enter into it . If Lord Balmerino , in the last re- bellion , had driven off the cattle of twenty clans , I should have ...
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... proceeding on these principles , that is , preparing to end the present troubles by a trial of one sort of hostility under the name of piracy , and of another by the name of treason , and executing the act of Henry the Eighth according ...
... proceeding on these principles , that is , preparing to end the present troubles by a trial of one sort of hostility under the name of piracy , and of another by the name of treason , and executing the act of Henry the Eighth according ...
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... proceeding it is never the faction of the predominant power that is in danger : for no tyranny chastises its own instruments . It is the obnox- ious and the suspected who want the protection of law ; and there is nothing to bridle the ...
... proceeding it is never the faction of the predominant power that is in danger : for no tyranny chastises its own instruments . It is the obnox- ious and the suspected who want the protection of law ; and there is nothing to bridle the ...
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... proceedings we see very few traces of that generosity , humanity , and dignity of mind , which formerly characterized this nation . War suspends the rules of moral obligation , and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally ...
... proceedings we see very few traces of that generosity , humanity , and dignity of mind , which formerly characterized this nation . War suspends the rules of moral obligation , and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally ...
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... proceeding ? No conqueror , that I ever heard of , has professed to make a cruel , harsh , and insolent use of his conquest . No ! The man of the most declared pride scarcely dares to trust his own heart with this dreadful secret of ...
... proceeding ? No conqueror , that I ever heard of , has professed to make a cruel , harsh , and insolent use of his conquest . No ! The man of the most declared pride scarcely dares to trust his own heart with this dreadful secret of ...
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