The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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Page 17
... act of parliament for remedy to the then existing disorders in India , such as the then information before us enabled us to enact . Finding , that the act of parliament did not answer all the ends that were expected from it , we had ...
... act of parliament for remedy to the then existing disorders in India , such as the then information before us enabled us to enact . Finding , that the act of parliament did not answer all the ends that were expected from it , we had ...
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... acts under two very dissimilar sorts of powers , derived from two sources very remote from each other . The first source of its power is under charters , which the Crown of Great Bri- tain was authorized by act of parliament to grant ...
... acts under two very dissimilar sorts of powers , derived from two sources very remote from each other . The first source of its power is under charters , which the Crown of Great Bri- tain was authorized by act of parliament to grant ...
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... act of parliament nominating them to that authority ; but in all other respects , except where the act and other subsequent acts have not broken in upon it , the whole course of the service remains upon the antient footing , that is ...
... act of parliament nominating them to that authority ; but in all other respects , except where the act and other subsequent acts have not broken in upon it , the whole course of the service remains upon the antient footing , that is ...
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... act of parliament has fulminated against them . Clear positive laws , and clear positive private engagements , have no exception of circumstances in them , no difference 36 SPEECH IN THE IMPEACHMENT.
... act of parliament has fulminated against them . Clear positive laws , and clear positive private engagements , have no exception of circumstances in them , no difference 36 SPEECH IN THE IMPEACHMENT.
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... law of the court of directors , which law parliament had bound upon him as his rule of action , -not satisfied with his long tacit connivance , ventured , before he left his government and among his last acts , to pass a general act of ...
... law of the court of directors , which law parliament had bound upon him as his rule of action , -not satisfied with his long tacit connivance , ventured , before he left his government and among his last acts , to pass a general act of ...
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