The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 4Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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Page 331
... Lordships that no standard is sufficient to estimate the value which the Commons set upon the event of the cause they now bring before you . My Lords , the business of this day is not the business of this man , it is not sole- ly ...
... Lordships that no standard is sufficient to estimate the value which the Commons set upon the event of the cause they now bring before you . My Lords , the business of this day is not the business of this man , it is not sole- ly ...
Page 333
... Lordships are invested with great and plenary powers : but you do not suspend , you do not supersede , you do not annihilate any subor- dinate jurisdiction ; on the contrary , you are auxil- iary and supplemental to them all . Whether ...
... Lordships are invested with great and plenary powers : but you do not suspend , you do not supersede , you do not annihilate any subor- dinate jurisdiction ; on the contrary , you are auxil- iary and supplemental to them all . Whether ...
Page 335
... Lordships ) such a crime , and such a criminal , and such a body of evi- dence , and such a mode of process , as would have recommended this course of justice to posterity , even if it had not been supported by any example in the ...
... Lordships ) such a crime , and such a criminal , and such a body of evi- dence , and such a mode of process , as would have recommended this course of justice to posterity , even if it had not been supported by any example in the ...
Page 339
... Lordships , and I believe the world , will be astonished . that so much , so clear , so solid , and so conclusive evidence of all kinds has been obtained against him . I have no doubt that in nine instances in ten the evidence is such ...
... Lordships , and I believe the world , will be astonished . that so much , so clear , so solid , and so conclusive evidence of all kinds has been obtained against him . I have no doubt that in nine instances in ten the evidence is such ...
Page 340
... Lordships will maintain , what we assert and claim as the right of the subjects of Great Britain , that you are not bound by any rules of evidence , or any other rules whatever , except those of natural , immutable , and substantial ...
... Lordships will maintain , what we assert and claim as the right of the subjects of Great Britain , that you are not bound by any rules of evidence , or any other rules whatever , except those of natural , immutable , and substantial ...
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