The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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Page 30
... liberty , they could not pay . Hence all your specific and de- tailed enumerations ; hence the innumerable checks and counterchecks ; hence that infinite variety of paper chains by which you bind together this complicated system of 30 ...
... liberty , they could not pay . Hence all your specific and de- tailed enumerations ; hence the innumerable checks and counterchecks ; hence that infinite variety of paper chains by which you bind together this complicated system of 30 ...
Page 34
... liberty , taken together , is certainly not perfect freedom ; but comparing it with the ordinary circum stances of human nature , it was an happy and a lib- eral condition . - I know , Sir , that great and not ...
... liberty , taken together , is certainly not perfect freedom ; but comparing it with the ordinary circum stances of human nature , it was an happy and a lib- eral condition . - I know , Sir , that great and not ...
Page 38
... liberty ; for but too many are apt to believe regulation to be commerce , and taxes to be revenue . Among regula- tions , that which stood first in reputation was his idol : I mean the Act of Navigation . He has often professed it to be ...
... liberty ; for but too many are apt to believe regulation to be commerce , and taxes to be revenue . Among regula- tions , that which stood first in reputation was his idol : I mean the Act of Navigation . He has often professed it to be ...
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... liberty the Amer- icans have , and what one brand of slavery they are free from , if they are bound in their property and in- dustry by all the restraints you can imagine on com- merce , and at the same time are made pack - horses of ...
... liberty the Amer- icans have , and what one brand of slavery they are free from , if they are bound in their property and in- dustry by all the restraints you can imagine on com- merce , and at the same time are made pack - horses of ...
Page 74
... liberty , are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength , our opprobrium for their glory , and the slough of slavery , which we are not able to work off , to serve ...
... liberty , are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength , our opprobrium for their glory , and the slough of slavery , which we are not able to work off , to serve ...
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