The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... abuse their power , are accused by statesmen , and tried by statesmen , not upon the niceties of a narrow jurisprudence , but upon the enlarged and solid principles of state morality . It is here , that those , who by the abuse of power ...
... abuse their power , are accused by statesmen , and tried by statesmen , not upon the niceties of a narrow jurisprudence , but upon the enlarged and solid principles of state morality . It is here , that those , who by the abuse of power ...
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... with which you are born , to suspect , that you would , by any abuse of the forms , and a technical course of proceeding , deny justice to so great a VOL . VII . 3 Your lord- part of the world , that claims it OF WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 21.
... with which you are born , to suspect , that you would , by any abuse of the forms , and a technical course of proceeding , deny justice to so great a VOL . VII . 3 Your lord- part of the world , that claims it OF WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 21.
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... abuse of our forms of proceeding . It is necessary , therefore , that no- thing in that proceeding should appear to mark the slightest trace , should betray the faintest odour , of chicane . God forbid , that , when you try the most ...
... abuse of our forms of proceeding . It is necessary , therefore , that no- thing in that proceeding should appear to mark the slightest trace , should betray the faintest odour , of chicane . God forbid , that , when you try the most ...
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... abused , are the powers delegated to him by the East - India Company . The East - India Company itself acts under two very dissimilar sorts of powers , derived from two sources very remote from each other . The first source of its power ...
... abused , are the powers delegated to him by the East - India Company . The East - India Company itself acts under two very dissimilar sorts of powers , derived from two sources very remote from each other . The first source of its power ...
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... abused , to state in as short and as comprehensive words as I can ( for the matter is large indeed ) what the constitution of that company is ; mean chiefly , what it is in reference to its Indian service , the great theatre of the abuse ...
... abused , to state in as short and as comprehensive words as I can ( for the matter is large indeed ) what the constitution of that company is ; mean chiefly , what it is in reference to its Indian service , the great theatre of the abuse ...
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