The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... honor , as a betrayer of the dignity of his country . Most men , especially great men , do not always know their well - wishers . I come to rescue that no- * Lord North , then Chancellor of the Exchequer . ble lord out of the hands of ...
... honor , as a betrayer of the dignity of his country . Most men , especially great men , do not always know their well - wishers . I come to rescue that no- * Lord North , then Chancellor of the Exchequer . ble lord out of the hands of ...
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... honor so high that he would rather part with his crown than preserve it by deceit . " * A glorious and true character ! which ( since we suffer his ministers with impunity to answer for his ideas of taxation ) we ought to make it our ...
... honor so high that he would rather part with his crown than preserve it by deceit . " * A glorious and true character ! which ( since we suffer his ministers with impunity to answer for his ideas of taxation ) we ought to make it our ...
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... in many things , seemed to have been adopted . I saw , or thought I saw , several symptoms of a great change , whilst I sat in your gallery , a good while before I had the honor of a seat in this House . At SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 35.
... in many things , seemed to have been adopted . I saw , or thought I saw , several symptoms of a great change , whilst I sat in your gallery , a good while before I had the honor of a seat in this House . At SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 35.
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Edmund Burke. the honor of a seat in this House . At that period the necessity was established of keeping up no less than twenty new regiments , with twenty colonels capable of seats in this House . This scheme was adopted with very ...
Edmund Burke. the honor of a seat in this House . At that period the necessity was established of keeping up no less than twenty new regiments , with twenty colonels capable of seats in this House . This scheme was adopted with very ...
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... honor of a seat in this House , it was my fortune , unknowing and unknown to the then ministry , by the intervention of a common friend , to become connected with a very noble person , and at the head of the Treas- ury Department . It ...
... honor of a seat in this House , it was my fortune , unknowing and unknown to the then ministry , by the intervention of a common friend , to become connected with a very noble person , and at the head of the Treas- ury Department . It ...
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