The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... LORDS , - We will now resume the consider here wing of the prisoner's attempts to defend himself against it . Mr. Hastings , well knowing ( what your Lordships must also by this time be perfectly satisfied was the case ) that this ...
... LORDS , - We will now resume the consider here wing of the prisoner's attempts to defend himself against it . Mr. Hastings , well knowing ( what your Lordships must also by this time be perfectly satisfied was the case ) that this ...
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... Lords in this kingdom ( which comes near the case I am going to state ) separately the subject of assessment , such a thing would be con- trary to all the principles of regular and just taxa- tion in any country in the universe . Some ...
... Lords in this kingdom ( which comes near the case I am going to state ) separately the subject of assessment , such a thing would be con- trary to all the principles of regular and just taxa- tion in any country in the universe . Some ...
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... Lord- ships would expect to find , an ample provision for all the nobility of that illustrious family of which the ... Lords , if there is anything which will root the present order of things out of Europe , it will begin , as we see ...
... Lord- ships would expect to find , an ample provision for all the nobility of that illustrious family of which the ... Lords , if there is anything which will root the present order of things out of Europe , it will begin , as we see ...
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... Lords , was an act of gross violence , ushered in by a gross fraud . It ap pears that no pensions were ever intended to be paid ; and this you will naturally guess would be the event , when such a strange metamorphosis was to be made as ...
... Lords , was an act of gross violence , ushered in by a gross fraud . It ap pears that no pensions were ever intended to be paid ; and this you will naturally guess would be the event , when such a strange metamorphosis was to be made as ...
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... Lords , for what object all this was done . Was Mr. Hastings endeavoring , by his arbitrary interference and the use ... Lord- ships ' honorable and generous feelings as to have offered you , upon this occasion , any remarks which you ...
... Lords , for what object all this was done . Was Mr. Hastings endeavoring , by his arbitrary interference and the use ... Lord- ships ' honorable and generous feelings as to have offered you , upon this occasion , any remarks which you ...
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