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Page vii
The volume , which is now inscribed to your lordship , relates to that proceeding ;
a proceeding , which that virtuous and enlightened representative held to be the
most important of his parliamentary labours . The assumption of arbitrary power ...
The volume , which is now inscribed to your lordship , relates to that proceeding ;
a proceeding , which that virtuous and enlightened representative held to be the
most important of his parliamentary labours . The assumption of arbitrary power ...
Page viii
The cultivators of literature will for ever lament the want of his finishing hand .
however , that the substance of the whole of the proceedings will be found in
these volumes ; and that the philosopher and the statesman will not be insensible
of ...
The cultivators of literature will for ever lament the want of his finishing hand .
however , that the substance of the whole of the proceedings will be found in
these volumes ; and that the philosopher and the statesman will not be insensible
of ...
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Many measures utterly unknown to former parliamentary proceedings , and
which , indeed , seemed in some degree to enfeeble them , but which were all to
the ... In an early stage of the proceeding , the criminal desired to be heard . He
was ...
Many measures utterly unknown to former parliamentary proceedings , and
which , indeed , seemed in some degree to enfeeble them , but which were all to
the ... In an early stage of the proceeding , the criminal desired to be heard . He
was ...
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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
VOL .
... 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
VOL .
Page 22
But it is feared , that partiality may lurk and nestle in the abuse of our forms of
proceeding . It is necessary , therefore , that nothing in that proceeding should
appear to mark the slightest trace , should betray the faintest odour , of chicane .
But it is feared , that partiality may lurk and nestle in the abuse of our forms of
proceeding . It is necessary , therefore , that nothing in that proceeding should
appear to mark the slightest trace , should betray the faintest odour , of chicane .
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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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