The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... guilt , required only to be known ; and Mr. Burke was firmly persuaded , that by the investigation of the affairs of that government , resulting from the trial , and by the publick exposure of the crimes which had been perpetrated , he ...
... guilt , required only to be known ; and Mr. Burke was firmly persuaded , that by the investigation of the affairs of that government , resulting from the trial , and by the publick exposure of the crimes which had been perpetrated , he ...
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... guilt and national ignominy ; or whether this nation will con- vert the very offences , which have thrown a transient shade upon its government , into something , that will reflect a per- manent lustre upon the honour , justice , and ...
... guilt and national ignominy ; or whether this nation will con- vert the very offences , which have thrown a transient shade upon its government , into something , that will reflect a per- manent lustre upon the honour , justice , and ...
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... guilt stalked with an erect and upright front , and that legal authority seemed to skulk and hide its head like outlawed guilt ; when we found , that some of those very persons , who were appointed by parliament to assert the authority ...
... guilt stalked with an erect and upright front , and that legal authority seemed to skulk and hide its head like outlawed guilt ; when we found , that some of those very persons , who were appointed by parliament to assert the authority ...
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... guilt ; it would have been to make ourselves accomplices with the criminal . We found it was impossible to evade painful duty , without betraying a sacred trust . Having , therefore , resolved upon the last and only resource , a penal ...
... guilt ; it would have been to make ourselves accomplices with the criminal . We found it was impossible to evade painful duty , without betraying a sacred trust . Having , therefore , resolved upon the last and only resource , a penal ...
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... guilt , and our common interest in the plunder of the East , we have invented a set of scholastick distinctions , abhorrent to the common sense , and unpropitious to the common necessities , of mankind ; by which we are to deny ...
... guilt , and our common interest in the plunder of the East , we have invented a set of scholastick distinctions , abhorrent to the common sense , and unpropitious to the common necessities , of mankind ; by which we are to deny ...
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