 ... give it more precision, more energy, more effect by their declarations, such laws enter into the sanctuary, and participate in the sacredness of its character. But the man who quotes as precedents the abuses of tyrants and robbers pollutes the very...  The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 59by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Authors, Irish - 1904 - 510 pages
...the abuses of tyrants and robbers, pollutes the very fountain of justice, destroys the foundation of all law, and thereby removes the only safeguard against evil men, whether governing or governed — the guard which prevents governors from becoming tyrants, and the governed... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 482 pages
...robbers, pollutes the very fountains of justice, destroys the foundations of all law, and therefore removes the only safeguard against evil men, whether...becoming tyrants, and the governed from becoming rebels." There was deep philosophy in the confession of an eminent English judge. When he had condemned a young... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1910 - 778 pages
...abuses of tyrants and robbersi, pollutes the very fountain of justice, destroys the foundations of all law, and thereby removes the only safeguard against evil men, whether governing or governed — the guard which prevents governors from becoming tyrants, and the governed... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1997 - 720 pages
...the abuses of tyrants and robbers pollutes the very fountain of justice, destroys the foundations of all law, and thereby removes the only safeguard against...becoming tyrants, and the governed from becoming rebels. . . . Second Day: Friday, May 30, 1794 . . . Wherever existing laws were applicable, the prisoner at... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 456 pages
...robbers, pollutes the very fountains of justice, destroys the foundations of all law, and therefore removes the only safeguard against evil men, whether...becoming tyrants, and the governed from becoming rebels." There was deep philosophy in the confession of an eminent English judge. When he had condemned a young... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...the abuses of tyrants and robbers pollutes the very fountain of justice, destroys the foundations of all law, and thereby removes the only safeguard against...becoming tyrants, and the governed from becoming rebels. . . . Second Day: Friday, May 30, 1794 . . . Wherever existing laws were applicable, the prisoner at... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 474 pages
...the abuses of tyrants and robbers pollutes the very fountain of justice, destroys the foundations of all law, and thereby removes the only safeguard against...brought forward at our bar, has been repeated at your Lordships' bar, and has been put upon the records of both Houses. I hope your Lordships will not think... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 474 pages
...the abuses of tyrants and robbers pollutes the very fountain of justice, destroys the foundations of all law, and thereby removes the only safeguard against...brought forward at our bar, has been repeated at your Lordships' bar, and has been put upon the records of both Houses. I hope your Lordships will not think... | |
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