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Page 18
I know not how it happens , but this dignity of yours is a terrible incumbrance to
you ; for it has of late been ever at war with your interest , your equity , and every
idea of your policy . Show the thing yoil con tend for to be reason , show it to be ...
I know not how it happens , but this dignity of yours is a terrible incumbrance to
you ; for it has of late been ever at war with your interest , your equity , and every
idea of your policy . Show the thing yoil con tend for to be reason , show it to be ...
Page 43
But it should be considered , that the American governments themselves have , in
the prosecution of the late war , contracted very large debts , which it will take
some years to pay off , and in the mean time occasion very burdensome taxes for
...
But it should be considered , that the American governments themselves have , in
the prosecution of the late war , contracted very large debts , which it will take
some years to pay off , and in the mean time occasion very burdensome taxes for
...
Page 46
The first step the noble lord took was , to have the opinion of his excellent ,
learned , and ever - lamented friend , the late Mr. Yorke , then Attorney - General ,
on the point of law . When he knew that formally and officially which in substance
he ...
The first step the noble lord took was , to have the opinion of his excellent ,
learned , and ever - lamented friend , the late Mr. Yorke , then Attorney - General ,
on the point of law . When he knew that formally and officially which in substance
he ...
Page 55
... that the papers on your table bear me out in saying that all the late
disturbances , which have been at one time the minister's motives for the repeal
of five out of six of the new court taxes , and are now his pretences for refusing to
repeal that ...
... that the papers on your table bear me out in saying that all the late
disturbances , which have been at one time the minister's motives for the repeal
of five out of six of the new court taxes , and are now his pretences for refusing to
repeal that ...
Page 59
Similar accounts , and of as late a date , were sent from other governors , and all
directed to Lord Halifax . Not one of these letters indicates the slightest idea of a
change , either known or even apprehended . Thus are blown away the insect ...
Similar accounts , and of as late a date , were sent from other governors , and all
directed to Lord Halifax . Not one of these letters indicates the slightest idea of a
change , either known or even apprehended . Thus are blown away the insect ...
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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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