The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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Page 14
... interests in one connected view . They have taken things by bits and scraps , some at one time and one pretence , and some at another , just as they ' pressed , without any sort of regard to their relations or dependencies . They never ...
... interests in one connected view . They have taken things by bits and scraps , some at one time and one pretence , and some at another , just as they ' pressed , without any sort of regard to their relations or dependencies . They never ...
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... interest , merely for the sake of insulting your colonies ? No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could bear an imposition of three - pence . But no commodity will bear three- pence , or will bear a penny , when the general feel ...
... interest , merely for the sake of insulting your colonies ? No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could bear an imposition of three - pence . But no commodity will bear three- pence , or will bear a penny , when the general feel ...
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... interest , your equity , and every idea of your policy . Show the thing you con- tend for to be reason , show it to be common sense , show it to be the means of attaining some useful - end , and then I am content to allow 18 SPEECH ON ...
... interest , your equity , and every idea of your policy . Show the thing you con- tend for to be reason , show it to be common sense , show it to be the means of attaining some useful - end , and then I am content to allow 18 SPEECH ON ...
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... interest of this empire , crammed into your lobbies , with a trembling and anxious expectation , waited , almost to a winter's return of light , their fate from your resolutions . When at length you had de- termined in their favor , and ...
... interest of this empire , crammed into your lobbies , with a trembling and anxious expectation , waited , almost to a winter's return of light , their fate from your resolutions . When at length you had de- termined in their favor , and ...
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... interest . If you appre- hend that on a concession you shall be pushed by metaphysical process to the extreme lines , and ar- gued out of your whole authority , my advice is this : -- when you have recovered your old , your strong 70 ...
... interest . If you appre- hend that on a concession you shall be pushed by metaphysical process to the extreme lines , and ar- gued out of your whole authority , my advice is this : -- when you have recovered your old , your strong 70 ...
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