The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 - Great Britain |
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... judges , and not like cavilling pettifoggers and quibbling pleaders , prying into flaws and hunting for exceptions . Look , gentlemen , to the whole tenor of your member's conduct . Try whether his ambition or his avarice have justled ...
... judges , and not like cavilling pettifoggers and quibbling pleaders , prying into flaws and hunting for exceptions . Look , gentlemen , to the whole tenor of your member's conduct . Try whether his ambition or his avarice have justled ...
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... judge of it . This is the only one of the charges in which I am personally concerned . As to the other matters objected against me , which in their turn I shall mention to you , remember once more I do not mean to extenuate or excuse ...
... judge of it . This is the only one of the charges in which I am personally concerned . As to the other matters objected against me , which in their turn I shall mention to you , remember once more I do not mean to extenuate or excuse ...
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... judge ; but is referred to the arbitrary discretion of a private , nay interested , and irritated individual . He , who formally is , and substantially ought to be , the judge , is in reality no more than ministerial , a mere executive ...
... judge ; but is referred to the arbitrary discretion of a private , nay interested , and irritated individual . He , who formally is , and substantially ought to be , the judge , is in reality no more than ministerial , a mere executive ...
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Edmund Burke, William Willis. of a private man , who is at once judge and party . Every idea of judicial order is subverted by this procedure . If the insolvency be no crime , why is it punished with arbitrary imprisonment ? If it be a ...
Edmund Burke, William Willis. of a private man , who is at once judge and party . Every idea of judicial order is subverted by this procedure . If the insolvency be no crime , why is it punished with arbitrary imprisonment ? If it be a ...
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... judges in their own cause . For credit has little or no concern in this cruelty . I speak in a commercial assembly . You know that credit is given , because capital must be em- ployed ; that men calculate the chances of insolvency ; and ...
... judges in their own cause . For credit has little or no concern in this cruelty . I speak in a commercial assembly . You know that credit is given , because capital must be em- ployed ; that men calculate the chances of insolvency ; and ...
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