The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... ideas the repeal is grounded . Repeal this tax , too , upon commercial principles , if you please . These principles will serve as well now as they did formerly . But you know that either your objection to a repeal from these supposed ...
... ideas the repeal is grounded . Repeal this tax , too , upon commercial principles , if you please . These principles will serve as well now as they did formerly . But you know that either your objection to a repeal from these supposed ...
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... ideas in the management of great 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 ...
... ideas in the management of great 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 ...
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... idea of your policy . Show the thing you con tend for to be reason , show it to be common sense , show it to be the means of attaining some useful end , and then I am content to allow it 18 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
... idea of your policy . Show the thing you con tend for to be reason , show it to be common sense , show it to be the means of attaining some useful end , and then I am content to allow it 18 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
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... idea was ut terly exploded by those who sway the House . This speech was made on the ninth day of May , 1769 . Five days after this speech , that is , on the thirteenth of the same month , the public circular letter , a part of which I ...
... idea was ut terly exploded by those who sway the House . This speech was made on the ninth day of May , 1769 . Five days after this speech , that is , on the thirteenth of the same month , the public circular letter , a part of which I ...
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... Passing , therefore , from the Constitutional consideration to the mere policy , does not this letter imply that the idea of taxing America - for the purpose of revenue is an abominable proj- ect SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 21.
... Passing , therefore , from the Constitutional consideration to the mere policy , does not this letter imply that the idea of taxing America - for the purpose of revenue is an abominable proj- ect SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 21.
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