The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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Page 39
... abuses . The contraband will always keep pace in some measure with the fair trade . It should stand as a fundamental maxim , that no vulgar precaution ought to be employed in the cure of evils which are closely connected with the cause ...
... abuses . The contraband will always keep pace in some measure with the fair trade . It should stand as a fundamental maxim , that no vulgar precaution ought to be employed in the cure of evils which are closely connected with the cause ...
Page 90
... abuses in making them . - I do not intend to argue the matter here . My learned counsel has supported your cause with his usual ability ; the worthy sheriffs have acted with their usual equity ; and I have no doubt that the same equity ...
... abuses in making them . - I do not intend to argue the matter here . My learned counsel has supported your cause with his usual ability ; the worthy sheriffs have acted with their usual equity ; and I have no doubt that the same equity ...
Page 95
... abuse of which he is deeply answerable . Your representative owes you , not his industry only , but his judgment ; and he be- trays , instead of serving you , if he sacrifices it to your opinion . My worthy colleague says , his will ...
... abuse of which he is deeply answerable . Your representative owes you , not his industry only , but his judgment ; and he be- trays , instead of serving you , if he sacrifices it to your opinion . My worthy colleague says , his will ...
Page 165
... abuses have been full as great and as flagrant in the exempted as in the punished . The same reasons of prudence and accommodation have weight with me in restoring the charter of Massachusetts Bay . Besides , Sir , the act which changes ...
... abuses have been full as great and as flagrant in the exempted as in the punished . The same reasons of prudence and accommodation have weight with me in restoring the charter of Massachusetts Bay . Besides , Sir , the act which changes ...
Page 205
... abused wealth of this country continues a little longer to feed its distemper . As yet they , and their German allies of twenty hireling states , have contended only with the unprepared strength of our own infant colonie : But America ...
... abused wealth of this country continues a little longer to feed its distemper . As yet they , and their German allies of twenty hireling states , have contended only with the unprepared strength of our own infant colonie : But America ...
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