 ... referred to the arbitrary discretion of a private, nay interested, and irritated, individual. He, who formally is, and substantially ought to be, the judge, is in reality no more than ministerial, a mere executive instrument of a private man, who...  Hansard's Parliamentary Debates - Page 413by Great Britain. Parliament - 1834Full view - About this book
 | History - 1781 - 732 pages
...by this procedure. If the infolvency be no crime, why is it puniihed with arbitrary imprifonment t If it be a crime, why is it delivered into private hands to pardon without difcretion, or to punifli without mercy and without meafuref To thefi faults, grofs and cruel faults... | |
 | History - 1788 - 734 pages
...fubverted by this procedure. If the infolvency be no crime, why is it gummed with arbitrary imprifonment ? If it be a crime, why is it delivered into private hands to pardon without difcretioh, or to punifh without mercy ¡nul without neafure ? To thefe faults, grofs and cruel faults... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1788 - 762 pages
...by this procedure. If the infolvency be no crime, why is it puniftied with arbitrary imprifonment ? If it be a crime, why is it delivered into private hands to pardon without difcretion, or to punilli without mercy and without meafure ? To thefe faults, grofs and cruel faults... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...fubverted by this procedure. If the infolvency be no crime, why is it punimed with arbitrary imprifonment ? If it be a crime, why is it delivered into private hands to pardon without difcretion, or to punifh without mercy and without meafure ? To thefe faults, grofs and cruel faults... | |
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...instrument of a private man, who is at once judge and party. Every idea of judicial order" is subverted by by this procedure. If the insolvency be no crime,...merCy and without measure ? I know that credit must he preserved ; but equity must be preserved too; and it is impossible that any thing should be necessary... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...by this procedure. If the infolvency be no crime, why is it punifhed with arbitrary impriionment ? If it be a crime, why is it delivered into private hands to pardon without difcretion, or to punifh without mercy and without mcafure? Speech previous, to the Eleftion at Brijlcl.... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 490 pages
...more than ministerial, a mere executive instrument of a private man, who is at once judge and party. Every idea of judicial order is subverted by this procedure. If the insolvency be no crime, why is it-punished with arbitrary imprisonment ? If it be a crime, why is it delivered into private hands... | |
 | Robert Bisset - Great Britain - 1803 - 450 pages
...by this procedure. If the infnlvency be no crime, why is it punifhcd with arbitrary imprifonment i If it be a crime, why is it delivered into private hands to pardon without difcretion, «r to punilli without mercy and without meafure l :> dative code of the country. Cautious,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 454 pages
...by this procedure. If the infolvency be no crime, why is it punifhed with arbitrary imprifonment ? If it be a crime, why is it delivered into private hands to pardon without difcretion, or to punifh without mercy and without meafure ? To thefe faults, grofs and cruel faults... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...more than ministerial, a mere executive instrument of a private man, who is at once judge and party. Every idea of judicial order is subverted by this...discretion, or to punish without mercy and without measure ? DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE. AN offensive alliance, in which union is preserved, by common efforts in common... | |
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