The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7Wells and Lilly, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... thing , except the merits of their cause . The Commons will not have the melancholy unsocial glory of having acted a solitary part in a noble , but imperfect , work . What the greatest inquest of the nation has begun , its highest ...
... thing , except the merits of their cause . The Commons will not have the melancholy unsocial glory of having acted a solitary part in a noble , but imperfect , work . What the greatest inquest of the nation has begun , its highest ...
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... thing of penal process . It was in the year 1774 we framed an act of parliament for remedy to the then existing disorders in India , such as the then information before us enabled us to enact . Finding , that the act of parliament did ...
... thing of penal process . It was in the year 1774 we framed an act of parliament for remedy to the then existing disorders in India , such as the then information before us enabled us to enact . Finding , that the act of parliament did ...
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... thing down before it , which does not 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 ...
... thing down before it , which does not 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 ...
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... thing should be received as proof from them , which is not by na- ture adapted to prove the thing in question . If they should make such a request , they would aim at overturning the very principles of that justice , to which they ...
... thing should be received as proof from them , which is not by na- ture adapted to prove the thing in question . If they should make such a request , they would aim at overturning the very principles of that justice , to which they ...
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... thing , which does create any doubt or difficulty in the minds of sober people . But there are those , who will not judge so equitably . Where two motives , neither of them perfectly justifiable , may be assigned , the worst has the ...
... thing , which does create any doubt or difficulty in the minds of sober people . But there are those , who will not judge so equitably . Where two motives , neither of them perfectly justifiable , may be assigned , the worst has the ...
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