The Works of Edmund Burke1839 |
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Page 41
... land , who are to execute the law , and of the House of Lords , who are bound as its guar- dians not to suffer the words , " arbitrary power , " to be men- tioned before them . For I am not again to tell your lordships that arbitrary ...
... land , who are to execute the law , and of the House of Lords , who are bound as its guar- dians not to suffer the words , " arbitrary power , " to be men- tioned before them . For I am not again to tell your lordships that arbitrary ...
Page 48
... lands , instead of producing any law document or authority on the usages and local customs of the country , he has referred to officers in the army , colonels of artillery and engineers , to young gentlemen just come from school , not ...
... lands , instead of producing any law document or authority on the usages and local customs of the country , he has referred to officers in the army , colonels of artillery and engineers , to young gentlemen just come from school , not ...
Page 49
... lands , no inheritance , nothing that makes man feel proud of himself , or that gives him honor and distinction with others : -this abject degradation will take from you that kind of sympathy , which naturally attaches you to men ...
... lands , no inheritance , nothing that makes man feel proud of himself , or that gives him honor and distinction with others : -this abject degradation will take from you that kind of sympathy , which naturally attaches you to men ...
Page 52
... lands , orchards , jewels , corals , clothes , fur- niture , cattle , and birds , and all the estate , real and ... land , or houses , or orchards of that person , without let or molestation from him , from the twenty - first year the ...
... lands , orchards , jewels , corals , clothes , fur- niture , cattle , and birds , and all the estate , real and ... land , or houses , or orchards of that person , without let or molestation from him , from the twenty - first year the ...
Page 53
... land , that the people of India have no laws whatever . I do not mean to trouble your lordships with more extracts from this book . I recommend it to your lordships ' reading ; when you will find , that , so far from the magistrate ...
... land , that the people of India have no laws whatever . I do not mean to trouble your lordships with more extracts from this book . I recommend it to your lordships ' reading ; when you will find , that , so far from the magistrate ...
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