The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... suffer it to be either discredited or antiquated . For this great end your lordships are invested with great and plenary powers : but you do not suspend , you do not super- sede , you do not annihilate any subordinate jurisdiction ; on ...
... suffer it to be either discredited or antiquated . For this great end your lordships are invested with great and plenary powers : but you do not suspend , you do not super- sede , you do not annihilate any subordinate jurisdiction ; on ...
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... suffering nations , infinite descrip- tions of men , different in language , in manners , and in rites -men , separated by every barrier of nature from you , by the providence of God are blended in one common cause , and are now become ...
... suffering nations , infinite descrip- tions of men , different in language , in manners , and in rites -men , separated by every barrier of nature from you , by the providence of God are blended in one common cause , and are now become ...
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... suffer- ed by the British merchants , - " My friend , " ( as the story is related by Dr. Shawe ) " do not you know , that my sub- jects are a band of robbers , and that I am their captain ? " -better it would be a thousand times , and a ...
... suffer- ed by the British merchants , - " My friend , " ( as the story is related by Dr. Shawe ) " do not you know , that my sub- jects are a band of robbers , and that I am their captain ? " -better it would be a thousand times , and a ...
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... suffered , were derived . It may be a little necessary , when we are stating the powers the company have derived from their charter , and which we state Mr. Hastings to have abused , to state in as short and as comprehensive words as I ...
... suffered , were derived . It may be a little necessary , when we are stating the powers the company have derived from their charter , and which we state Mr. Hastings to have abused , to state in as short and as comprehensive words as I ...
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... suffered themselves ; but , far from being taught by those sufferings to abstain from rigour , they have only learned the methods of afflicting their fellow slaves . They have the best intelligence of what is done in England . The ...
... suffered themselves ; but , far from being taught by those sufferings to abstain from rigour , they have only learned the methods of afflicting their fellow slaves . They have the best intelligence of what is done in England . The ...
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