The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... BILLS DEPENDING IN PARLIAMENT RELATIVE TO THE TRADE OF IRELAND , April 23 and May 2 , 1778 PAGE 1 • 81 99 66 • 187 ... BILL , December 1 , 1783 A REPRESENTATION TO HIS MAJESTY , MOVED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS , June 14 , 1784 247 265 ...
... BILLS DEPENDING IN PARLIAMENT RELATIVE TO THE TRADE OF IRELAND , April 23 and May 2 , 1778 PAGE 1 • 81 99 66 • 187 ... BILL , December 1 , 1783 A REPRESENTATION TO HIS MAJESTY , MOVED IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS , June 14 , 1784 247 265 ...
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... bill ; and the minority did not reach to more than 39 or 40. In the House of Lords I do not recollect that there was any debate or division at all . I am sure there was no protest . In fact , the affair passed with so very , very little ...
... bill ; and the minority did not reach to more than 39 or 40. In the House of Lords I do not recollect that there was any debate or division at all . I am sure there was no protest . In fact , the affair passed with so very , very little ...
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Edmund Burke. the bill in England never could have done this mis chief , because there scarcely ever was less of opposi- tion to a bill of consequence . Sir , the agents and distributors of falsehoods have , with their usual industry ...
Edmund Burke. the bill in England never could have done this mis chief , because there scarcely ever was less of opposi- tion to a bill of consequence . Sir , the agents and distributors of falsehoods have , with their usual industry ...
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... bill by which we had passed sentence on the trade and sustenance of Amer ica is to be returned to us from the other House . * do confess , I could not help looking on this event as a fortunate omen . I look upon it as a sort of Prov ...
... bill by which we had passed sentence on the trade and sustenance of Amer ica is to be returned to us from the other House . * do confess , I could not help looking on this event as a fortunate omen . I look upon it as a sort of Prov ...
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... Bill , because ( independently of the dangerous precedent of sus- pending the rights of the subject during the king's pleasure ) it was passed , as I apprehend , with less reg- ularity , and on more partial principles , than it ought ...
... Bill , because ( independently of the dangerous precedent of sus- pending the rights of the subject during the king's pleasure ) it was passed , as I apprehend , with less reg- ularity , and on more partial principles , than it ought ...
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