The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... defence is above every other law ; and if any persons draw the sword against you , violence on your part is justified , and you may use your sword to take from them that property by which they have been enabled to draw their sword ...
... defence is above every other law ; and if any persons draw the sword against you , violence on your part is justified , and you may use your sword to take from them that property by which they have been enabled to draw their sword ...
Page 39
... defence , and that it was never thought of till lately found by the learned counsel in the English translation of the Hedaya . " God bless me ! " now says Mr. Hastings , " what ignorance have I been in all this time ! I thought I was ...
... defence , and that it was never thought of till lately found by the learned counsel in the English translation of the Hedaya . " God bless me ! " now says Mr. Hastings , " what ignorance have I been in all this time ! I thought I was ...
Page 40
... defence , and the principles of it , ap- pear to me ten thousand times worse than the act itself . Now , my Lords , this criminal , through his coun- sel , chooses , with their usual flippancy , to say that the Commons have been ...
... defence , and the principles of it , ap- pear to me ten thousand times worse than the act itself . Now , my Lords , this criminal , through his coun- sel , chooses , with their usual flippancy , to say that the Commons have been ...
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... defence is , that they had not the apt deeds to entitle them in law to this property . In this cause , with only the delinquent party before you , you are called upon to try their title on his allega- tions of its invalidity , and by ...
... defence is , that they had not the apt deeds to entitle them in law to this property . In this cause , with only the delinquent party before you , you are called upon to try their title on his allega- tions of its invalidity , and by ...
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... defence . It is , that the Nabob himself never has made a claim on this ground ; even Mr. Hastings , his despotic master , could never get him regularly and systemati- cally to make such a claim ; the very reverse of this is the truth ...
... defence . It is , that the Nabob himself never has made a claim on this ground ; even Mr. Hastings , his despotic master , could never get him regularly and systemati- cally to make such a claim ; the very reverse of this is the truth ...
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