The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... 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 habits of the most intimate friendship ...
... 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 habits of the most intimate friendship ...
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... authority and misdemeanour in office , has come before this tribunal . The last is that of Lord Macclesfield , which hap- pened in the year 1725. So that the oldest process known to the constitution of this country has , upon its ...
... authority and misdemeanour in office , has come before this tribunal . The last is that of Lord Macclesfield , which hap- pened in the year 1725. So that the oldest process known to the constitution of this country has , upon its ...
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... 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 king- dom , were the most forward , the ...
... 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 king- dom , were the most forward , the ...
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... authority ; that he did not commit after reproof and reprimand , the reproof and reprimand of those , who are authorized by the laws to reprove and reprimand him . The crimes of Mr. Hastings are crimes , not only in themselves , but ...
... authority ; that he did not commit after reproof and reprimand , the reproof and reprimand of those , who are authorized by the laws to reprove and reprimand him . The crimes of Mr. Hastings are crimes , not only in themselves , but ...
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... 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 , the com- mercial footing , as to the ...
... 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 , the com- mercial footing , as to the ...
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