The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... facts are represented , and whose subsequent conduct is to be justified by such representations , is not sim- ply accountable for his conduct ; he is accountable for culpably attempting to form , on false premises , the judgment of ...
... facts are represented , and whose subsequent conduct is to be justified by such representations , is not sim- ply accountable for his conduct ; he is accountable for culpably attempting to form , on false premises , the judgment of ...
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... fact many of them are so granted . We are farther to tell your Lordships , that by the custom of the empire they are almost all grown , as the feods in Europe are grown , by use , into something which is at least virtually an ...
... fact many of them are so granted . We are farther to tell your Lordships , that by the custom of the empire they are almost all grown , as the feods in Europe are grown , by use , into something which is at least virtually an ...
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... fact of the rebellion can be proved , the discussion of the title to the property in question will be totally useless ; for , if the ladies had actually taken up arms to cut the Nabob's throat , it would require no person to come from ...
... fact of the rebellion can be proved , the discussion of the title to the property in question will be totally useless ; for , if the ladies had actually taken up arms to cut the Nabob's throat , it would require no person to come from ...
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... fact ; I find the law . " Were it not for this sacred attention to separate jurisdictions , he might have been a tolera- ble judge of the fact , -just as good a judge as Mr. Hastings for neither of them knew it any other way , as it ...
... fact ; I find the law . " Were it not for this sacred attention to separate jurisdictions , he might have been a tolera- ble judge of the fact , -just as good a judge as Mr. Hastings for neither of them knew it any other way , as it ...
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... fact ? and if none can be produced , does not the prisoner's defence aggravate infinitely his crime and that of his agents ? Did they ever once state to these unfortunate women that any such rebellion existed ? Did they ever charge them ...
... fact ? and if none can be produced , does not the prisoner's defence aggravate infinitely his crime and that of his agents ? Did they ever once state to these unfortunate women that any such rebellion existed ? Did they ever charge them ...
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