The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 45
... English merchants and manufac- turers , from governors of provinces and commanders . of men - of - war , against almost the whole of the Amer- - ican commercial regulations , and particularly with regard to SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 45.
... English merchants and manufac- turers , from governors of provinces and commanders . of men - of - war , against almost the whole of the Amer- - ican commercial regulations , and particularly with regard to SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 45.
Page 117
... English enterprise , ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people , —a people who are still , as it were , but in the gristle , and not yet hardened into the bone ...
... English enterprise , ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people , —a people who are still , as it were , but in the gristle , and not yet hardened into the bone ...
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... English ideas and on English principles . Abstract liberty , like other mere abstractions , is not to be found . Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point , which by way of ...
... English ideas and on English principles . Abstract liberty , like other mere abstractions , is not to be found . Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point , which by way of ...
Page 121
... English Constitution to insist on this privilege of granting money as a dry point of fact , and to prove that the right had been acknowledged in ancient parchments and blind usages to reside in a certain body called an House of Commons ...
... English Constitution to insist on this privilege of granting money as a dry point of fact , and to prove that the right had been acknowledged in ancient parchments and blind usages to reside in a certain body called an House of Commons ...
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... English Tartars , and , pouring down upon your unfortified frontiers a fierce and irresistible cavalry , become masters of your governors and your counsel- lors , your collectors and comptrollers , and of all the slaves that adhered to ...
... English Tartars , and , pouring down upon your unfortified frontiers a fierce and irresistible cavalry , become masters of your governors and your counsel- lors , your collectors and comptrollers , and of all the slaves that adhered to ...
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