The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3J. C. Nimmo, 1887 - Great Britain |
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... thought it our duty to inquire very minutely into those debts , even if the act of Par- liament had been silent on the subject , before we con- curred in any measure for their payment . But with the positive injunctions of the act ...
... thought it our duty to inquire very minutely into those debts , even if the act of Par- liament had been silent on the subject , before we con- curred in any measure for their payment . But with the positive injunctions of the act ...
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... thought of him , if he had held the present language of his old accuser ? When articles were exhibited against him by that right honorable gentleman , he did not think proper to tell the House that we ought to institute no inquiry , to ...
... thought of him , if he had held the present language of his old accuser ? When articles were exhibited against him by that right honorable gentleman , he did not think proper to tell the House that we ought to institute no inquiry , to ...
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... thought proper to divide them . But this was the exact view in which these debts first appeared to the Court of Directors , and to the world . It varied afterwards . But it never ap- peared in any other than a most questionable shape ...
... thought proper to divide them . But this was the exact view in which these debts first appeared to the Court of Directors , and to the world . It varied afterwards . But it never ap- peared in any other than a most questionable shape ...
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... thought proper to pretend , in order to frighten you from inquiry ; but in these volumes , such as they are , the minister must have found a full authority for a suspicion ( at the very least ) of everything relative to the great ...
... thought proper to pretend , in order to frighten you from inquiry ; but in these volumes , such as they are , the minister must have found a full authority for a suspicion ( at the very least ) of everything relative to the great ...
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... thought so , because he has put it last in the provision he has made for these claims . I readily admit this debt to stand the fairest of the whole ; for , whatever may be my suspicions concern- ing a part of it , I can convict it of ...
... thought so , because he has put it last in the provision he has made for these claims . I readily admit this debt to stand the fairest of the whole ; for , whatever may be my suspicions concern- ing a part of it , I can convict it of ...
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