The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... PARLIAMENT RELATIVE TO THE TRADE OF IRELAND , April 23 and May 2 , 1778 PAGE 1 • 81 99 66 • 187 SPEECH ON PRESENTING TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS A PLAN FOR THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE INDEPEN- DENCE OF PARLIAMENT , AND THE ECONOMICAL REFOR ...
... PARLIAMENT RELATIVE TO THE TRADE OF IRELAND , April 23 and May 2 , 1778 PAGE 1 • 81 99 66 • 187 SPEECH ON PRESENTING TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS A PLAN FOR THE BETTER SECURITY OF THE INDEPEN- DENCE OF PARLIAMENT , AND THE ECONOMICAL REFOR ...
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... Parliament . • This piece has been for some months ready for the press . But a delicacy , possibly over - scrupulous , has delayed the publication to this time . The friends of administration have been used to attribute a great deal of ...
... Parliament . • This piece has been for some months ready for the press . But a delicacy , possibly over - scrupulous , has delayed the publication to this time . The friends of administration have been used to attribute a great deal of ...
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Edmund Burke. When Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in the year 1766 , I affirm , first , that the Americans did not in consequence of this measure call upon you to give up the former Parliamentary revenue which subsisted in that ...
Edmund Burke. When Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in the year 1766 , I affirm , first , that the Americans did not in consequence of this measure call upon you to give up the former Parliamentary revenue which subsisted in that ...
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... 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 .
... 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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... Parliament hurling its thunders at the gigantic re- bellion of America , and then , five days after , pros- trate at the feet of those assemblies we affected to despise , begging them , by the intervention of our ministerial sureties ...
... Parliament hurling its thunders at the gigantic re- bellion of America , and then , five days after , pros- trate at the feet of those assemblies we affected to despise , begging them , by the intervention of our ministerial sureties ...
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