The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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Page 18
... 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 are to inform your lordships , that , besides that long previous deliberation ...
... 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 are to inform your lordships , that , besides that long previous deliberation ...
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... 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 oppres ...
... 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 oppres ...
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... 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 VOL . VII . 3 Your lord- part of the world , that claims it OF WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 21.
... 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 VOL . VII . 3 Your lord- part of the world , that claims it OF WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 21.
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... course will be apprized , that this cause , is not what occurs every day in the ordinary round of mu- nicipal affairs ; that it has a relation to many things , that it touches many points in many places , which are wholly re- moved from ...
... course will be apprized , that this cause , is not what occurs every day in the ordinary round of mu- nicipal affairs ; that it has a relation to many things , that it touches many points in many places , which are wholly re- moved from ...
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... course very different from their usual order . A new dis- position took place , not dreamt of in the theories of specula- tive politicians ; and of which few examples , in the least resembling it , have been seen in the modern world ...
... course very different from their usual order . A new dis- position took place , not dreamt of in the theories of specula- tive politicians ; and of which few examples , in the least resembling it , have been seen in the modern world ...
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