The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... 9 , 1780 • SPEECH ON MR . FOX'S EAST INDIA BILL , December 1 , 1783 A REPRESENTATION TO HIS MAJESTY , MOVED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS , June 14 , 1784 247 265 365 · 425 431 537 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . APRIL 19 , 1774 .
... 9 , 1780 • SPEECH ON MR . FOX'S EAST INDIA BILL , December 1 , 1783 A REPRESENTATION TO HIS MAJESTY , MOVED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS , June 14 , 1784 247 265 365 · 425 431 537 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . APRIL 19 , 1774 .
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... India Committees have done us at least so much good , as to let us know , that , without a more extensive sale of that article , our East India revenues and acquisitions can have no certain connection with this country . It is through ...
... India Committees have done us at least so much good , as to let us know , that , without a more extensive sale of that article , our East India revenues and acquisitions can have no certain connection with this country . It is through ...
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... India Company to open a shop for defeating the American resolution not to pay that specific tax , you manifestly showed a hankering after the principle of the act which you formerly had renounced . What- ever road you take leads to a ...
... India Company to open a shop for defeating the American resolution not to pay that specific tax , you manifestly showed a hankering after the principle of the act which you formerly had renounced . What- ever road you take leads to a ...
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... . Your right to give a monopoly to the East India Company , your right to lay immense duties on French brandy , are not disputed in England . You do not make this charge on any man . But you know that there 34 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
... . Your right to give a monopoly to the East India Company , your right to lay immense duties on French brandy , are not disputed in England . You do not make this charge on any man . But you know that there 34 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
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... India goods , and brandies . I take it for granted that the authority of Governor Bernard in this point is indisputable . Speaking of these laws , as they regarded that part of America now in so un- happy a condition , he says , " I ...
... India goods , and brandies . I take it for granted that the authority of Governor Bernard in this point is indisputable . Speaking of these laws , as they regarded that part of America now in so un- happy a condition , he says , " I ...
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