The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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... cause to expect , when your ministers disclaimed the idea of taxes for a revenue . There is nothing simple , nothing manly , nothing ingenuous , open , decisive , or steady , in the proceeding , with re- gard either to the continuance ...
... cause to expect , when your ministers disclaimed the idea of taxes for a revenue . There is nothing simple , nothing manly , nothing ingenuous , open , decisive , or steady , in the proceeding , with re- gard either to the continuance ...
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... cause the concession was far short of satisfying the principle which Lord Hillsborough had abjured , or even the pretence on which the repeal of the other taxes was announced ; and because , by enabling the East India Company to open a ...
... cause the concession was far short of satisfying the principle which Lord Hillsborough had abjured , or even the pretence on which the repeal of the other taxes was announced ; and because , by enabling the East India Company to open a ...
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... cause a great alarm , and meet with much opposition in most parts of America ; it was quite new to the people , and had no visible bounds set to it . " After stating the weakness of government there , he says , " Was this a time to ...
... cause a great alarm , and meet with much opposition in most parts of America ; it was quite new to the people , and had no visible bounds set to it . " After stating the weakness of government there , he says , " Was this a time to ...
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... cause of our prosperity . Perhaps this great person turned his eyes somewhat less than was just towards the incredible increase of the fair trade , and looked with something of too ex- quisite a jealousy towards the contraband . He cer ...
... cause of our prosperity . Perhaps this great person turned his eyes somewhat less than was just towards the incredible increase of the fair trade , and looked with something of too ex- quisite a jealousy towards the contraband . He cer ...
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... cause of those that make it ? It is a full refutation of the pretence for their present cruelty to America ; for it shows , out of their own mouths , that our colonies were backward to enter into the present vexatious and ruinous ...
... cause of those that make it ? It is a full refutation of the pretence for their present cruelty to America ; for it shows , out of their own mouths , that our colonies were backward to enter into the present vexatious and ruinous ...
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