The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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Page 14
... bring before you . My lords , the business of this day is not the business of this man - it is not solely , whether the prisoner at the bar be found innocent , or guilty ; but whether millions of mankind shall be made miserable , or ...
... bring before you . My lords , the business of this day is not the business of this man - it is not solely , whether the prisoner at the bar be found innocent , or guilty ; but whether millions of mankind shall be made miserable , or ...
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... bring before you a poor , puny , trembling delinquent , misled , perhaps , by those , who ought to have taught him better , but who have afterwards oppressed him by their power , as they had first corrupted him by their example ...
... bring before you a poor , puny , trembling delinquent , misled , perhaps , by those , who ought to have taught him better , but who have afterwards oppressed him by their power , as they had first corrupted him by their example ...
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... bring before you living witnesses , competent to speak to the points , to which they are brought . When you consider the late enormous power of the pri soner ; when you consider his criminal , indefatigable assidui- ty in the ...
... bring before you living witnesses , competent to speak to the points , to which they are brought . When you consider the late enormous power of the pri soner ; when you consider his criminal , indefatigable assidui- ty in the ...
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... bring before you one in- stitution , taken from the mercantile constitution of the com- pany , so excellent , that I will venture to say , that human wisdom has never exceeded it . In this excellent institution the counting - house gave ...
... bring before you one in- stitution , taken from the mercantile constitution of the com- pany , so excellent , that I will venture to say , that human wisdom has never exceeded it . In this excellent institution the counting - house gave ...
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... bring the whole before your lordships ; and I beg to observe to you , that this previous discourse , rather explanatory than accusatorial ( if I may use the expression ) , is meant rather to elucidate the nature of the matter to come ...
... bring the whole before your lordships ; and I beg to observe to you , that this previous discourse , rather explanatory than accusatorial ( if I may use the expression ) , is meant rather to elucidate the nature of the matter to come ...
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