The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1871 - Great Britain |
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... whole course of it , to asperse the characters and decry the measures of those who were supposed to be friends to America , in order to weaken the effect of their opposition to the acts of rigor then preparing against the colonies . The ...
... whole course of it , to asperse the characters and decry the measures of those who were supposed to be friends to America , in order to weaken the effect of their opposition to the acts of rigor then preparing against the colonies . The ...
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... whole House , to take into con- sideration the duty of three - pence per pound weight upon tea , payable in all his Majesty's dominions in America , im- posed by the said act ; and also the appropriation of the said duty . " On this ...
... whole House , to take into con- sideration the duty of three - pence per pound weight upon tea , payable in all his Majesty's dominions in America , im- posed by the said act ; and also the appropriation of the said duty . " On this ...
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... whole empire , no topic has been more familiar to us . For nine long years , session after session , we have been lashed round and round this miserable circle of occasional arguments and tempo- rary expedients . I am sure our heads must ...
... whole empire , no topic has been more familiar to us . For nine long years , session after session , we have been lashed round and round this miserable circle of occasional arguments and tempo- rary expedients . I am sure our heads must ...
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... without injury to commerce , ( if this were the whole consideration , ) have taxed these commodities . The same may be said of glass . Besides , some of the things taxed were so trivial , that the loss of SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 13.
... without injury to commerce , ( if this were the whole consideration , ) have taxed these commodities . The same may be said of glass . Besides , some of the things taxed were so trivial , that the loss of SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 13.
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... whole of your com- plicated 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 ...
... whole of your com- plicated 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 ...
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