The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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Edmund Burke. THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE EDMUND BURKE . FOURTH EDITION . ONC VOL . II . ROY UNG FOY UNC LOY BOSTON : LITTLE , BROWN , AND COMPANY . 1871 . CAMBRIDGE . PRESSWORK BY JOHN WILSON AND SON . 825.
Edmund Burke. THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE EDMUND BURKE . FOURTH EDITION . ONC VOL . II . ROY UNG FOY UNC LOY BOSTON : LITTLE , BROWN , AND COMPANY . 1871 . CAMBRIDGE . PRESSWORK BY JOHN WILSON AND SON . 825.
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... Company ; and you well know what sort of things are involved in the comprehen- sive energy of that significant appellation . I am not called upon to enlarge to you on that danger , which you thought proper yourselves to aggravate , and ...
... Company ; and you well know what sort of things are involved in the comprehen- sive energy of that significant appellation . I am not called upon to enlarge to you on that danger , which you thought proper yourselves to aggravate , and ...
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... Company to open a shop for defeating the American resolution not to pay that specific tax , you manifestly showed a hankering after the principle of the act which you formerly had renounced . What- ever road you take leads to a ...
... Company to open a shop for defeating the American resolution not to pay that specific tax , you manifestly showed a hankering after the principle of the act which you formerly had renounced . What- ever road you take leads to a ...
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... Your right to give a monopoly to the East India Company , your right to lay immense duties on French brandy , are not disputed in England . You do not make this charge on any man . But you know that there 34 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
... Your right to give a monopoly to the East India Company , your right to lay immense duties on French brandy , are not disputed in England . You do not make this charge on any man . But you know that there 34 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
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... companies ,. that the honorable gentleman under the gallery , * who proposed the repeal in the American committee , had another set of resolutions in his pocket , directly the reverse of those he moved . These artifices of a des- perate ...
... companies ,. that the honorable gentleman under the gallery , * who proposed the repeal in the American committee , had another set of resolutions in his pocket , directly the reverse of those he moved . These artifices of a des- perate ...
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