The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... give an explanation ( with their aid I may be enabled to give it ) of such circumstances , preceding the crimes charged on Mr. Hastings , or concomitant with them , as may tend to elucidate whatever may be found obscure in the arti ...
... give an explanation ( with their aid I may be enabled to give it ) of such circumstances , preceding the crimes charged on Mr. Hastings , or concomitant with them , as may tend to elucidate whatever may be found obscure in the arti ...
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... give time to the mind to recollect its faculties , to rein- force its reason , and to have recourse to fixed principles , but , by compelling an instant and tumultuous decision , too often obliges men to decide in a manner , that calm ...
... give time to the mind to recollect its faculties , to rein- force its reason , and to have recourse to fixed principles , but , by compelling an instant and tumultuous decision , too often obliges men to decide in a manner , that calm ...
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... give the nation an evil example , that would rebound back on themselves , and bring destruction upon their own heads , and on those of all their posterity . On the other hand , I have too much confidence in the learning , with which you ...
... give the nation an evil example , that would rebound back on themselves , and bring destruction upon their own heads , and on those of all their posterity . On the other hand , I have too much confidence in the learning , with which you ...
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... give countenance to this aspersion , from suspicion , that any corrupt motive can influence this court ; I deprecate it from knowing , that hith- erto we have moved within the narrow circle of municipal OF WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 23.
... give countenance to this aspersion , from suspicion , that any corrupt motive can influence this court ; I deprecate it from knowing , that hith- erto we have moved within the narrow circle of municipal OF WARREN HASTINGS , ESQ . 23.
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... give all complainants the short answer the Dey of Algiers gave a British ambassadour , representing certain grievances suffer- ed by the British merchants , - " My friend , " ( as the story is related by Dr. Shawe ) " do not you know ...
... give all complainants the short answer the Dey of Algiers gave a British ambassadour , representing certain grievances suffer- ed by the British merchants , - " My friend , " ( as the story is related by Dr. Shawe ) " do not you know ...
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