The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Edmund Burke. the constitution , judge what the stated and fixed rule of supply has been in that kingdom . Your Irish pensioners would starve if they had no other fund to live on than taxes granted by English authority . Turn your eyes ...
Edmund Burke. the constitution , judge what the stated and fixed rule of supply has been in that kingdom . Your Irish pensioners would starve if they had no other fund to live on than taxes granted by English authority . Turn your eyes ...
Page 114
... rule , which will ever make me adverse to any trial of experiments on what is certainly the most valuable of all subjects ; the peace of this empire . Secondly , it is an experiment which must be fatal in the end to our constitution ...
... rule , which will ever make me adverse to any trial of experiments on what is certainly the most valuable of all subjects ; the peace of this empire . Secondly , it is an experiment which must be fatal in the end to our constitution ...
Page 118
... rules of equity and policy , you can restrain any single colony , especially Virginia and Maryland , the central , and most important of them all . Let it also be considered , that , either in the pre- sent confusion you settle a ...
... rules of equity and policy , you can restrain any single colony , especially Virginia and Maryland , the central , and most important of them all . Let it also be considered , that , either in the pre- sent confusion you settle a ...
Page 143
... of the delinquency of men merely by the time of their guilt , and not by the heinousness of it ; and you make fortune and accidents , and not not the moral qualities of human action , the rule SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 143.
... of the delinquency of men merely by the time of their guilt , and not by the heinousness of it ; and you make fortune and accidents , and not not the moral qualities of human action , the rule SHERIFFS OF BRISTOL . 143.
Page 144
Edmund Burke. not the moral qualities of human action , the rule of your justice . These strange incongruities must ever ... rule to go by . But legislators ought to do what lawyers cannot ; for they have no other rules to bind them , but ...
Edmund Burke. not the moral qualities of human action , the rule of your justice . These strange incongruities must ever ... rule to go by . But legislators ought to do what lawyers cannot ; for they have no other rules to bind them , but ...
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