The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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... PARLIAMENT RELATIVE TO THE TRADE OF IRELAND , April 23 and May 2 , 1778 PAGE 1 • 81 99 · 187 SPEECH ON PRESENTING TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS A PLAN FOR THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE INDEPEN- DENCE OF PARLIAMENT , AND THE ECONOMICAL REFOR ...
... PARLIAMENT RELATIVE TO THE TRADE OF IRELAND , April 23 and May 2 , 1778 PAGE 1 • 81 99 · 187 SPEECH ON PRESENTING TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS A PLAN FOR THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE INDEPEN- DENCE OF PARLIAMENT , AND THE ECONOMICAL REFOR ...
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... Parliament . This piece has been for some months ready for the press . But a delicacy , possibly over - scrupulous , has delayed the publication to this time . The friends of administration have been used to attribute a great deal of ...
... Parliament . This piece has been for some months ready for the press . But a delicacy , possibly over - scrupulous , has delayed the publication to this time . The friends of administration have been used to attribute a great deal of ...
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Edmund Burke. SPEECH . DURING the last session of the last Parliament , on the 19th of April , 1774 , Mr. Rose Fuller , member for Rye , made the following motion : - " That an act made in the seventh year of the reign of his present ...
Edmund Burke. SPEECH . DURING the last session of the last Parliament , on the 19th of April , 1774 , Mr. Rose Fuller , member for Rye , made the following motion : - " That an act made in the seventh year of the reign of his present ...
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Edmund Burke. When Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in the year 1766 , I affirm , first , that the Americans did not in consequence of this measure call upon you to give up the former Parliamentary revenue which subsisted in that ...
Edmund Burke. When Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in the year 1766 , I affirm , first , that the Americans did not in consequence of this measure call upon you to give up the former Parliamentary revenue which subsisted in that ...
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... Parliament . The preamble of this law , standing as it now stands , has the lie direct given to it by the provisionary part of the act : if that can be called provisionary which makes no provision . should be afraid to express myself in ...
... Parliament . The preamble of this law , standing as it now stands , has the lie direct given to it by the provisionary part of the act : if that can be called provisionary which makes no provision . should be afraid to express myself in ...
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