The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 8Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 14
... remove those whom they were empowered to instruct ; from masters they were reduced to the situation of com- plainants , a situation the imbecility of which no laws or regulations could wholly alter ; and when the Directors were ...
... remove those whom they were empowered to instruct ; from masters they were reduced to the situation of com- plainants , a situation the imbecility of which no laws or regulations could wholly alter ; and when the Directors were ...
Page 19
... removed the necessity , but by no means the inducements to corruption and op- pression . Nor was any barrier whatsoever opposed on the part of the natives against their injustice , ex- * See the Secret Committee's Reports on the ...
... removed the necessity , but by no means the inducements to corruption and op- pression . Nor was any barrier whatsoever opposed on the part of the natives against their injustice , ex- * See the Secret Committee's Reports on the ...
Page 20
... removal : and if they should be brought to it , a door lay wide open for evasion of the law , and for a return into the ser- vice , in defiance of its plain intention , that is , by resigning to avoid removal ; by which measure this ...
... removal : and if they should be brought to it , a door lay wide open for evasion of the law , and for a return into the ser- vice , in defiance of its plain intention , that is , by resigning to avoid removal ; by which measure this ...
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... removal of an offender from his power of doing mischief is the only mode of preventing the utter and perhaps irretrievable ruin of public affairs . In such a case the process ought to be simple , and the power absolute in one or in ...
... removal of an offender from his power of doing mischief is the only mode of preventing the utter and perhaps irretrievable ruin of public affairs . In such a case the process ought to be simple , and the power absolute in one or in ...
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... removing a political inconvenience which attends a criminal proceeding for the punishment of offences . It goes ... removal of incapacity in the Council - General ex- tremely difficult , as well as to introduce many other abuses into the ...
... removing a political inconvenience which attends a criminal proceeding for the punishment of offences . It goes ... removal of incapacity in the Council - General ex- tremely difficult , as well as to introduce many other abuses into the ...
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