The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 15C. and J. Rivington, 1827 - Great Britain |
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... evidence before you . If you have received such evidence , you have received it obliquely ; for there is no other direct proof before your Lordships of such services , than that of there having been great distresses and great calamities ...
... evidence before you . If you have received such evidence , you have received it obliquely ; for there is no other direct proof before your Lordships of such services , than that of there having been great distresses and great calamities ...
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... evidence before you ; and therefore you must expunge it from your thoughts , and separate it entirely from your judgment . I shall hereafter have occasion to say a few words on this subject of merits . I have said thus much at present ...
... evidence before you ; and therefore you must expunge it from your thoughts , and separate it entirely from your judgment . I shall hereafter have occasion to say a few words on this subject of merits . I have said thus much at present ...
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Edmund Burke. If there is any thing in evidence which tends to destroy this plea of merits , we shall recur to that evidence ; if there is nothing to destroy it but argument , we shall have recourse to that argu- ment ; and if we support ...
Edmund Burke. If there is any thing in evidence which tends to destroy this plea of merits , we shall recur to that evidence ; if there is nothing to destroy it but argument , we shall have recourse to that argu- ment ; and if we support ...
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... evidence , and to shew their nature and quality by the rules of law , morality , and policy , then this Criminal , then his counsel , then his accomplices € 2 and and hirelings , posted in newspapers and dis- persed in OF WARREN ...
... evidence , and to shew their nature and quality by the rules of law , morality , and policy , then this Criminal , then his counsel , then his accomplices € 2 and and hirelings , posted in newspapers and dis- persed in OF WARREN ...
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... evidence , even though they could not have cross - examined it . Another complaint is , that many of his wit- nesses were obliged to leave England , before he could make use of their evidence . My Lords , no delay in the Trial has ...
... evidence , even though they could not have cross - examined it . Another complaint is , that many of his wit- nesses were obliged to leave England , before he could make use of their evidence . My Lords , no delay in the Trial has ...
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