 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...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 - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...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 - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...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 - United States - 1822 - 526 pages
...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 - United States - 1822 - 514 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...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 - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...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... 
