The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... AFFAIRS OF AMERICA , April 3 , 1777 • Two LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN OF BRISTOL , ON THE BILLS DEPENDING IN 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 ...
... AFFAIRS OF AMERICA , April 3 , 1777 • Two LETTERS TO GENTLEMEN OF BRISTOL , ON THE BILLS DEPENDING IN 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 ...
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... affairs . Never have the servants of the state looked at the whole of your com- plicated interests in one connected view . They have taken things by bits and scraps , some at one time and one pretence , and some at another , just as ...
... affairs . Never have the servants of the state looked at the whole of your com- plicated interests in one connected view . They have taken things by bits and scraps , some at one time and one pretence , and some at another , just as ...
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... affairs . He generally considered his objects in lights that were rather too detached . Whether the business of an American revenue was imposed upon him altogether , —whether it was entirely the result of his own speculation , or , what ...
... affairs . He generally considered his objects in lights that were rather too detached . Whether the business of an American revenue was imposed upon him altogether , —whether it was entirely the result of his own speculation , or , what ...
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... extensive views . But then this labor did knights ' service . It opened the eyes of several to the true state of the American affairs ; it enlarged their ideas ; it removed prejudices ; and it 48 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
... extensive views . But then this labor did knights ' service . It opened the eyes of several to the true state of the American affairs ; it enlarged their ideas ; it removed prejudices ; and it 48 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
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... affairs , and his worthy colleagues , whilst they trembled at the pros- pect of such distresses as you have since brought upon ↑ General Conway . * Mr . Dowdeswell . VOL . II . yourselves , were not afraid steadily to look in the ...
... affairs , and his worthy colleagues , whilst they trembled at the pros- pect of such distresses as you have since brought upon ↑ General Conway . * Mr . Dowdeswell . VOL . II . yourselves , were not afraid steadily to look in the ...
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