The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 174
... bill for prohibiting the New England fishery ) that you can lay no possible restraints on almost any of them which may not be presently eluded , if you do not confound the innocent with the guilty , and bur- den those whom upon every ...
... bill for prohibiting the New England fishery ) that you can lay no possible restraints on almost any of them which may not be presently eluded , if you do not confound the innocent with the guilty , and bur- den those whom upon every ...
Page 200
... bill in its progress through the House ; because it would have been vain to oppose , and impossible to correct it . It is some time since I have been clearly convinced , that , in the present state of things , all opposition to any ...
... bill in its progress through the House ; because it would have been vain to oppose , and impossible to correct it . It is some time since I have been clearly convinced , that , in the present state of things , all opposition to any ...
Page 202
... Bill , and all that long array of hostile acts of Parliament by which the war with America has been begun and supported ! Had the principles of any of these acts been first ex- erted on English ground , they would probably have expired ...
... Bill , and all that long array of hostile acts of Parliament by which the war with America has been begun and supported ! Had the principles of any of these acts been first ex- erted on English ground , they would probably have expired ...
Page 298
... bill . Sir , the House will now see , whether , in praying for judgment against the minor principalities , I do not act in conformity to the laws that I had laid to myself : of getting rid of every jurisdiction more sub- servient to ...
... bill . Sir , the House will now see , whether , in praying for judgment against the minor principalities , I do not act in conformity to the laws that I had laid to myself : of getting rid of every jurisdiction more sub- servient to ...
Page 325
... bill ; and I cannot stop for such an in- quiry . I know some gentlemen may blame me . It is with great submission to better judgments that I recommend it to consideration , that a critical retro- spective examination of the pension list ...
... bill ; and I cannot stop for such an in- quiry . I know some gentlemen may blame me . It is with great submission to better judgments that I recommend it to consideration , that a critical retro- spective examination of the pension list ...
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