The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 15C. and J. Rivington, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... Lordships ' minutes , I hope it will not be the less considered as good argument , because it is so supported . 7 I must now call your Lordships ' attention from the vaunted services of the Prisoner , which have been urged to convict us ...
... Lordships ' minutes , I hope it will not be the less considered as good argument , because it is so supported . 7 I must now call your Lordships ' attention from the vaunted services of the Prisoner , which have been urged to convict us ...
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... Lordships fined him forty thousand pounds , notwithstanding all his merits ; notwithstanding his humility ; notwith- standing his contrition , notwithstanding the decorum of his behaviour , so well suited to a man under the prosecution ...
... Lordships fined him forty thousand pounds , notwithstanding all his merits ; notwithstanding his humility ; notwith- standing his contrition , notwithstanding the decorum of his behaviour , so well suited to a man under the prosecution ...
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... Lordships to join us ; and we have no doubt that you will feel the same sym- pathy that we feel , or ( what I cannot persuade my soul to think , or my mouth to utter , ) you will be identified with the Criminal whose crimes you excuse ...
... Lordships to join us ; and we have no doubt that you will feel the same sym- pathy that we feel , or ( what I cannot persuade my soul to think , or my mouth to utter , ) you will be identified with the Criminal whose crimes you excuse ...
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... Lordships will look into . On the 19th of Fe- bruary 1789 , the Prisoner presented a petition to your Lordships , in which he states , after many other complaints , that a great number of his witnesses were obliged to go to India , by ...
... Lordships will look into . On the 19th of Fe- bruary 1789 , the Prisoner presented a petition to your Lordships , in which he states , after many other complaints , that a great number of his witnesses were obliged to go to India , by ...
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... Lordships to examine it with extraordinary strictness and attention . In the petition before your Lordships , the Prisoner asserts , that he was under the necessity , through his counsel and solicitors , " of collecting and collating ...
... Lordships to examine it with extraordinary strictness and attention . In the petition before your Lordships , the Prisoner asserts , that he was under the necessity , through his counsel and solicitors , " of collecting and collating ...
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