The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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... ment . He has thrown out a speech composed al- most entirely of challenges . Challenges are serious things ; and as he is a man of prudence as well as resolution , I dare say he has very well weighed those challenges before he delivered ...
... ment . He has thrown out a speech composed al- most entirely of challenges . Challenges are serious things ; and as he is a man of prudence as well as resolution , I dare say he has very well weighed those challenges before he delivered ...
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... ment for men or measures , further than as they shall seem to me to deserve it . But before I go into that large consideration , because I would omit nothing that can give the House satisfaction , I wish to tread the narrow ground to ...
... ment for men or measures , further than as they shall seem to me to deserve it . But before I go into that large consideration , because I would omit nothing that can give the House satisfaction , I wish to tread the narrow ground to ...
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... ment : not on any general reasoning growing out of collateral matter , but on the conduct of the honorable gentleman's ministerial friends on the new revenue itself . The act of 1767 , which grants this tea - duty , sets forth in its ...
... ment : not on any general reasoning growing out of collateral matter , but on the conduct of the honorable gentleman's ministerial friends on the new revenue itself . The act of 1767 , which grants this tea - duty , sets forth in its ...
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... ment . This whole state of commercial servitude and civil 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 ...
... ment . This whole state of commercial servitude and civil 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 ...
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... ment was resolved on , a revenue was to be found to support so great a burden . Country gentlemen , the great patrons of economy , and the great resisters of a standing armed force , would not have entered with much alacrity into the ...
... ment was resolved on , a revenue was to be found to support so great a burden . Country gentlemen , the great patrons of economy , and the great resisters of a standing armed force , would not have entered with much alacrity into the ...
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