The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... able to force them ? Oh , but it seems " we are in the right . The tax is trifling , in effect it is rather an exoneration than an imposition ; three fourths of the duty formerly payable on teas exported to America is taken off , - the ...
... able to force them ? Oh , but it seems " we are in the right . The tax is trifling , in effect it is rather an exoneration than an imposition ; three fourths of the duty formerly payable on teas exported to America is taken off , - the ...
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... able declaration . After stating the vigorous meas- ures which had been pursued , the speech from the throne proceeds : - " You have assured me of your firm support in the prosecution of them . Nothing , in my opinion , could be more ...
... able declaration . After stating the vigorous meas- ures which had been pursued , the speech from the throne proceeds : - " You have assured me of your firm support in the prosecution of them . Nothing , in my opinion , could be more ...
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... able them to dispose of such articles as we forced upon them , and for which , without some degree of liberty , they could not pay . Hence all your specific and de- tailed enumerations ; hence the innumerable checks and counterchecks ...
... able them to dispose of such articles as we forced upon them , and for which , without some degree of liberty , they could not pay . Hence all your specific and de- tailed enumerations ; hence the innumerable checks and counterchecks ...
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... able ; the multitude struck them with terror . But the grand manœuvre in that business of new regulating the colonies was the fifteenth act of the fourth of George the Third , which , besides containing several of the matters to which I ...
... able ; the multitude struck them with terror . But the grand manœuvre in that business of new regulating the colonies was the fifteenth act of the fourth of George the Third , which , besides containing several of the matters to which I ...
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... able ; nor , I believe , would the Americans themselves have disputed it at a proper time and season . But it should be considered , that the American governments themselves have , in the prosecution of the late war , contracted very ...
... able ; nor , I believe , would the Americans themselves have disputed it at a proper time and season . But it should be considered , that the American governments themselves have , in the prosecution of the late war , contracted very ...
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