The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 15C. and J. Rivington, 1827 - Great Britain |
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Page 37
... evidence . We examined Mr. Larkins , my Lords ; we examined all the Prisoners wit- nesses ; your Lordships have their testimony ; and down to this very hour , he has not put his hand upon any one , whom he thought a proper and essential ...
... evidence . We examined Mr. Larkins , my Lords ; we examined all the Prisoners wit- nesses ; your Lordships have their testimony ; and down to this very hour , he has not put his hand upon any one , whom he thought a proper and essential ...
Page 48
... evidence which we produce to you . But , my Lords , they who withhold their defence , who suffer themselves , as they say , to be cruelly criminated by unjust accusation , and yet will not permit the evidence of their guilt or innocence ...
... evidence which we produce to you . But , my Lords , they who withhold their defence , who suffer themselves , as they say , to be cruelly criminated by unjust accusation , and yet will not permit the evidence of their guilt or innocence ...
Page 67
... evidence before your Lordships , but I do know that it is good authority on the Gentoo law . Mr. Hastings , who instructed his Counsel to assert , that the people have " no rights , no law , " ought to be well acquainted with this work ...
... evidence before your Lordships , but I do know that it is good authority on the Gentoo law . Mr. Hastings , who instructed his Counsel to assert , that the people have " no rights , no law , " ought to be well acquainted with this work ...
Page 71
... evidence and of pleading ; and in short , all the rules which have been formed in other countries , to prevent this very arbitrary power . Notwithstanding all this , the Prisoner at the bar , and his Counsel , have dared to assert , in ...
... evidence and of pleading ; and in short , all the rules which have been formed in other countries , to prevent this very arbitrary power . Notwithstanding all this , the Prisoner at the bar , and his Counsel , have dared to assert , in ...
Page 77
... evidence to prove it of the age of Tamerlane ; and he must be the most miserable of criticks , who , reading this work with attention , does not see that if it was not written by this very great monarch himself , it was at least written ...
... evidence to prove it of the age of Tamerlane ; and he must be the most miserable of criticks , who , reading this work with attention , does not see that if it was not written by this very great monarch himself , it was at least written ...
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