The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 19
... continue on this ill - chosen ground , your difficul- ties thicken on you ; and therefore my conclusion is , remove from a bad position as quickly as you can . The disgrace , and the necessity of yielding , both of them , grow upon you ...
... continue on this ill - chosen ground , your difficul- ties thicken on you ; and therefore my conclusion is , remove from a bad position as quickly as you can . The disgrace , and the necessity of yielding , both of them , grow upon you ...
Page 36
... continue to pay for it . But hopes of another kind were held out to them ; and in particular , I well remember that Mr. Townshend , in a brilliant ha- rangue on this subject , did dazzle them by playing before their eyes the image of a ...
... continue to pay for it . But hopes of another kind were held out to them ; and in particular , I well remember that Mr. Townshend , in a brilliant ha- rangue on this subject , did dazzle them by playing before their eyes the image of a ...
Page 43
... continue it for four years longer at least before it will be clear . " These are the words of Governor Bernard's letter to a member of the old ministry , and which he has since printed . Mr. Grenville could not have made this ...
... continue it for four years longer at least before it will be clear . " These are the words of Governor Bernard's letter to a member of the old ministry , and which he has since printed . Mr. Grenville could not have made this ...
Page 107
... continue to levy or to impose for the regulation of commerce : the net produce of the duties last mentioned to be carried to the account of such province or colony respectively . " - Resolution moved by Lord North in the Committee , and ...
... continue to levy or to impose for the regulation of commerce : the net produce of the duties last mentioned to be carried to the account of such province or colony respectively . " - Resolution moved by Lord North in the Committee , and ...
Page 110
... continues , the exaggeration ends . Whilst we are discussing any given magnitude , they are grown to it . Whilst we spend our time in delib- erating on the mode of governing two millions , we shall find we have millions more to manage ...
... continues , the exaggeration ends . Whilst we are discussing any given magnitude , they are grown to it . Whilst we spend our time in delib- erating on the mode of governing two millions , we shall find we have millions more to manage ...
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