The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... body of monitory resolu- tions . Neither had we the expected fruit from them . When , therefore , we found , that our inquiries and our reports , our laws and our admonitions , were alike despised ; that enormi- ties increased in ...
... body of monitory resolu- tions . Neither had we the expected fruit from them . When , therefore , we found , that our inquiries and our reports , our laws and our admonitions , were alike despised ; that enormi- ties increased in ...
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... body of evidence , and such a mode of process , as would have recommended this course of justice to posterity , even if it had not been supported by any example in the practice of our forefa- thers . First , to speak of the process : we ...
... body of evidence , and such a mode of process , as would have recommended this course of justice to posterity , even if it had not been supported by any example in the practice of our forefa- thers . First , to speak of the process : we ...
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... body of eastern offenders ; a captain - general of iniqui- ty , under whom all the fraud , all the peculation , all the ty- ranny , in India , are embodied , disciplined , arrayed , and paid . This is the person , my lords , that we ...
... body of eastern offenders ; a captain - general of iniqui- ty , under whom all the fraud , all the peculation , all the ty- ranny , in India , are embodied , disciplined , arrayed , and paid . This is the person , my lords , that we ...
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... body and the whole train of their servants , the corporate body as a corporate body , individuals as individuals , are responsible to the high justice of this kingdom . In delegating great power to the East - India Company , this ...
... body and the whole train of their servants , the corporate body as a corporate body , individuals as individuals , are responsible to the high justice of this kingdom . In delegating great power to the East - India Company , this ...
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Edmund Burke. at all in the antient . In other instances a political body , that acts as a commonwealth , was first settled , and trade fol- lowed as a consequence of the protection obtained by poli- tical power ; but here the course of ...
Edmund Burke. at all in the antient . In other instances a political body , that acts as a commonwealth , was first settled , and trade fol- lowed as a consequence of the protection obtained by poli- tical power ; but here the course of ...
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