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If in an alarming exigency , when all constituted authority was threatened with
subversion , he submitted * to the painful necessity of acting in separation from
men , for whom he entertained the highest esteem , and with whom he had lived
in ...
If in an alarming exigency , when all constituted authority was threatened with
subversion , he submitted * to the painful necessity of acting in separation from
men , for whom he entertained the highest esteem , and with whom he had lived
in ...
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... the publick justice , I am not called upon to determine : but , whatever may be
the cause , it is now sixtythree years since any impeachment , grounded upon
abuse of authority and misdemeanour in office , has come before this tribunal .
... the publick justice , I am not called upon to determine : but , whatever may be
the cause , it is now sixtythree years since any impeachment , grounded upon
abuse of authority and misdemeanour in office , has come before this tribunal .
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... and that legal authority seemed to skulk and hide its head like outlawed guilt ;
when we found , that some of those very persons , who were appointed by
parliament to assert the authority of the laws of this kingdom , were the most
forward ...
... and that legal authority seemed to skulk and hide its head like outlawed guilt ;
when we found , that some of those very persons , who were appointed by
parliament to assert the authority of the laws of this kingdom , were the most
forward ...
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We charge him with nothing , that he did not commit upon deliberation ; that he
did not commit against advice , supplication , and remonstrance ; that he did not
commit against the direct command of lawful authority ; that he did not commit
after ...
We charge him with nothing , that he did not commit upon deliberation ; that he
did not commit against advice , supplication , and remonstrance ; that he did not
commit against the direct command of lawful authority ; that he did not commit
after ...
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... we are in perhaps more than half our service nothing but the inferiour ,
miserable instruments of the tyranny , which the lowest part of the natives of India
exercise to the disgrace of the British authority , and to the ruin of all , that is
respectable ...
... we are in perhaps more than half our service nothing but the inferiour ,
miserable instruments of the tyranny , which the lowest part of the natives of India
exercise to the disgrace of the British authority , and to the ruin of all , that is
respectable ...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Wells and Lilly, 1827 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Nov 2008 |
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