The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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... purposes still more ex- tensive . To this support the act assigns six branches of duties . About two years after this act passed , the ministry , I mean the present ministry , thought it ex- pedient to repeal five of the duties , and to ...
... purposes still more ex- tensive . To this support the act assigns six branches of duties . About two years after this act passed , the ministry , I mean the present ministry , thought it ex- pedient to repeal five of the duties , and to ...
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... purposes of this preamble ? Is not the supply there stated as effectually abandoned as if the tea - duty had perished in the general wreck ? Here , Mr. Speaker , is a precious mockery : -a pre- amble without an act , taxes granted in ...
... purposes of this preamble ? Is not the supply there stated as effectually abandoned as if the tea - duty had perished in the general wreck ? Here , Mr. Speaker , is a precious mockery : -a pre- amble without an act , taxes granted in ...
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... purpose . You are therefore at this moment in the awkward situation of fighting for a phantom , -a quiddity , a thing that wants , not only a sub- stance , but even a name , - for a thing which is neither abstract right nor profitable ...
... purpose . You are therefore at this moment in the awkward situation of fighting for a phantom , -a quiddity , a thing that wants , not only a sub- stance , but even a name , - for a thing which is neither abstract right nor profitable ...
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... to Parliament to lay any further taxes upon America , for the purpose of RAISING A REVE- NUE ; and that it is at present their intention to pro- pose , the next session of Parliament , to take 20 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
... to Parliament to lay any further taxes upon America , for the purpose of RAISING A REVE- NUE ; and that it is at present their intention to pro- pose , the next session of Parliament , to take 20 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
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... fathers . Passing , therefore , from the Constitutional consideration to the mere policy , does not this letter imply that the idea of taxing America - for the purpose of revenue is an abominable proj- ect SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 21.
... fathers . Passing , therefore , from the Constitutional consideration to the mere policy , does not this letter imply that the idea of taxing America - for the purpose of revenue is an abominable proj- ect SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 21.
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