The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... Commons , therefore , of Great Britain , those guardians of property , who will not suffer the monarch they love , the government which they adore , to levy one shilling upon the subject in any other way than the law and statutes of ...
... Commons , therefore , of Great Britain , those guardians of property , who will not suffer the monarch they love , the government which they adore , to levy one shilling upon the subject in any other way than the law and statutes of ...
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... . " About this time Mr. Hastings had received infor- mation of our inquiries in the House of Commons into his conduct ; and this is the manner in which he pre- pares to meet them . " I must get money 28 IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS .
... . " About this time Mr. Hastings had received infor- mation of our inquiries in the House of Commons into his conduct ; and this is the manner in which he pre- pares to meet them . " I must get money 28 IMPEACHMENT OF WARREN HASTINGS .
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... Commons , a British House of Lords , or any other tribunal in the king- dom ; but let me get money enough , and they won't care how I get it . The estates of whole bodies of nobility may be confiscated ; a people who had lived SPEECH IN ...
... Commons , a British House of Lords , or any other tribunal in the king- dom ; but let me get money enough , and they won't care how I get it . The estates of whole bodies of nobility may be confiscated ; a people who had lived SPEECH IN ...
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... Commons , and afterwards at the bar of the House of Lords . If your Lordships , in your sacred charac- ter of the first tribunal in the world , should by your judgment justify those proceedings , you will sanc- tion the greatest wrongs ...
... Commons , and afterwards at the bar of the House of Lords . If your Lordships , in your sacred charac- ter of the first tribunal in the world , should by your judgment justify those proceedings , you will sanc- tion the greatest wrongs ...
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... Commons have been cautious in stating this part of the charge , knowing that they were on tender ground , and therefore did not venture to say entitled , but possessed of only . A notable discovery indeed ! We are as far from being ...
... Commons have been cautious in stating this part of the charge , knowing that they were on tender ground , and therefore did not venture to say entitled , but possessed of only . A notable discovery indeed ! We are as far from being ...
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