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We have chosen ( we trust , it will so appear to your lordships ) such a crime , and
such a criminal , and such a body of evidence , and such a mode of process , as
would have recommended this course of justice to posterity , even if it had not ...
We have chosen ( we trust , it will so appear to your lordships ) such a crime , and
such a criminal , and such a body of evidence , and such a mode of process , as
would have recommended this course of justice to posterity , even if it had not ...
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Our course is different . We have not brought before you an obscure offender ,
who , when his insignificance and weakness are weighed against the power of
the prosecution , gives even to publick justice something of the appearance of ...
Our course is different . We have not brought before you an obscure offender ,
who , when his insignificance and weakness are weighed against the power of
the prosecution , gives even to publick justice something of the appearance of ...
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... with which you will be advised , and the liberality and nobleness of the
sentiments , with which you are born , to suspect , that you would , by any abuse
of the forms , and a technical course of proceeding , deny justice to so great a 3
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... with which you will be advised , and the liberality and nobleness of the
sentiments , with which you are born , to suspect , that you would , by any abuse
of the forms , and a technical course of proceeding , deny justice to so great a 3
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For the bonour of this nation , in vindication of this mysterious providence , let it
be known , that no rule formed upon municipal maxims ( if any such rule exists )
will prevent the course of that imperial justice , which you owe to the people , that
...
For the bonour of this nation , in vindication of this mysterious providence , let it
be known , that no rule formed upon municipal maxims ( if any such rule exists )
will prevent the course of that imperial justice , which you owe to the people , that
...
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Your lordships of course will be apprized , that this cause , is not what occurs
every day in the ordinary round of municipal affairs ; that it has a relation to many
things , that it touches many points in many places , which are wholly removed
from ...
Your lordships of course will be apprized , that this cause , is not what occurs
every day in the ordinary round of municipal affairs ; that it has a relation to many
things , that it touches many points in many places , which are wholly removed
from ...
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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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