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Page 37
... a court , but to win his way to power through the laborious gradations of public
service , and to secure himself a well - earned rank in Parliament by a thorough
knowledge of its constitution and a perfect practice in all its business . Sir , if such
...
... a court , but to win his way to power through the laborious gradations of public
service , and to secure himself a well - earned rank in Parliament by a thorough
knowledge of its constitution and a perfect practice in all its business . Sir , if such
...
Page 40
All this coming with new enumerations of commodities , with regulations which in
a manner put a stop to the mutual coasting intercourse of the colonies , with the
appointment of courts of admiralty under various improper circumstances , with a
...
All this coming with new enumerations of commodities , with regulations which in
a manner put a stop to the mutual coasting intercourse of the colonies , with the
appointment of courts of admiralty under various improper circumstances , with a
...
Page 48
Sir , a partial repeal , or , as the bon - ton of the court then was , a modification ,
would have satisfied a timid , unsystematic , procrastinating ministry , as such a
measure has since done such a ministry . A modification is the constant resource
of ...
Sir , a partial repeal , or , as the bon - ton of the court then was , a modification ,
would have satisfied a timid , unsystematic , procrastinating ministry , as such a
measure has since done such a ministry . A modification is the constant resource
of ...
Page 49
... augurs of political events , in defiance of the whole embattled legion of veteran
pensioners and practised instruments of a court , gave a total repeal to the Stamp
Act , and ( if it had been so permitted ) a lasting peace to this whole empire .
... augurs of political events , in defiance of the whole embattled legion of veteran
pensioners and practised instruments of a court , gave a total repeal to the Stamp
Act , and ( if it had been so permitted ) a lasting peace to this whole empire .
Page 51
The question of the repeal was brought on by ministry in the committee of this
House in the very instant when it was known that more than one court negotiation
was carrying on with the heads of the opposition . Everything , upon every side ...
The question of the repeal was brought on by ministry in the committee of this
House in the very instant when it was known that more than one court negotiation
was carrying on with the heads of the opposition . Everything , upon every side ...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, and Company, 1881 |
| Original from | Michigan State University |
| Digitized | 26 Apr 2013 |
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