The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... HOUSE OF COMMONS A PLAN FOR THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE INDEPEN- DENCE OF PARLIAMENT , AND THE ECONOMICAL REFOR- MATION OF THE CIVIL AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS , February 11 , 1780 • SPEECH AT BRISTOL PREVIOUS TO THE ELECTION , Septem- ber ...
... HOUSE OF COMMONS A PLAN FOR THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE INDEPEN- DENCE OF PARLIAMENT , AND THE ECONOMICAL REFOR- MATION OF THE CIVIL AND OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS , February 11 , 1780 • SPEECH AT BRISTOL PREVIOUS TO THE ELECTION , Septem- ber ...
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... House , to take into con- sideration the duty of three - pence per pound weight upon tea , payable in all his ... House . Very disagreeably to this House , very un- * Charles Wolfran Cornwall , Esq . , lately appointed one of the Lords ...
... House , to take into con- sideration the duty of three - pence per pound weight upon tea , payable in all his ... House . Very disagreeably to this House , very un- * Charles Wolfran Cornwall , Esq . , lately appointed one of the Lords ...
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... House , and to agree with the honorable gentleman on all the American questions . My sentiments , I am sure , are well known to him ; and I thought I had been perfectly acquainted with his . Though I find my- self mistaken , he will ...
... House , and to agree with the honorable gentleman on all the American questions . My sentiments , I am sure , are well known to him ; and I thought I had been perfectly acquainted with his . Though I find my- self mistaken , he will ...
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... House satisfaction , I wish to tread the narrow ground to which alone the honorable gen- tleman , in one part of his speech , has so strictly con- fined us . He desires to know , whether , if we were to repeal this tax , agreeably to ...
... House satisfaction , I wish to tread the narrow ground to which alone the honorable gen- tleman , in one part of his speech , has so strictly con- fined us . He desires to know , whether , if we were to repeal this tax , agreeably to ...
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... House thought proper , on that representation , to make a famous address for a revival and for a new application of a statute of Henry the Eighth . We besought the king , in that well - considered address , to inquire into treasons ...
... House thought proper , on that representation , to make a famous address for a revival and for a new application of a statute of Henry the Eighth . We besought the king , in that well - considered address , to inquire into treasons ...
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