 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pagina’s
...rights which, in their exercise under certain circumstances, were not the most odious of all wrongs, and the most vexatious of all injustice. Sir, these...that I see the same party, at once a civil litigant agaii st me in point of right, and a culprit before me ; while I sit as a criminal judge, on acts of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pagina’s
...rights which, in their exercise under certain circumstances, were not the most odious of all wrongs, and the most vexatious of all injustice. Sir, these...sit as criminal judge, on acts of his, whose moral qua\ity is to be decided upon the merits of that very litigation. Men are every now and then put, by... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pagina’s
...rights which, in their exercise under certain circumstances, were not the most odious of all wrongs, and the most vexatious of all injustice. Sir, these...acts of his, whose moral quality is to be decided on upon the merits of that very litigation. Men are every now and then put, by the complexity of human... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pagina’s
...rights which, in their exercise under certain circumstances, were not the most odious of all wrongs, and the most vexatious of all injustice. Sir, these...acts of his, whose moral quality is to be decided on upon the merits of that very litigation. Men are every now and then put, by the complexity of human... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 pagina’s
...exercise under certain circumstances, were not the most odious of all wrongs, and the most vexation! of all injustice. Sir, these considerations have great weight with me, when I u» things so circumstanced, that I see the same party, at once a civil litigant again-;t me in point... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pagina’s
...rights which, in their exercises under certain circumstances, were not the most odious of all wrongs ; and the most vexatious of all injustice. Sir, these...with me, when I find things so circumstanced, that I seethe same party, at once a civil litigant against me in point of right, and a culprit before me ;... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 526 pagina’s
...which, in their exercises under certain circiimstance4, were not the most odious of all wrongs, ml the most vexatious of all injustice. Sir, these considerations have great weight with me. wheu I find things so circumstanced, that I see the same party, at once a civil litigant »gainst me... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 514 pagina’s
...exercises under certain circumstances, were not the most odious of all wrongs, .Mid the most vexa'ious of all injustice. Sir, these considerations have great weight with me. when I iii (1 things so circumstanced, that I nee the same i>arly, at once a civil litigant »gaii<st me in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pagina’s
...rights which, in their exercise under certain circumstances, were not the most odious of all wrongs, re were, in the lime of our civil troubled roe, when I find things so circumstanced, that I •M the same party, at once a civil litigant against... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pagina’s
...rights which, in their exercise under certain circumstances, were not the most odious of all wrongs, and the most vexatious of all injustice. Sir, these...civil litigant against me in point of right, and a cuiprit before me ;• while I sit as criminal judge, on acts of his, whose moral quality is to be... | |
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Sir, let me add, too, that the opinion of my having some abstract right in my favor would not put me much at my ease in passing sentence, unless I could be sure that there were no rights which, in their exercise under certain circumstances, were not the... 
