The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... opinion , could be more likely to enable the well - disposed among my subjects in that part of the world effectually to dis- courage and defeat the designs of the factious and se- ditious than the hearty concurrence of every branch of ...
... opinion , could be more likely to enable the well - disposed among my subjects in that part of the world effectually to dis- courage and defeat the designs of the factious and se- ditious than the hearty concurrence of every branch of ...
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... opinion of the king's servants ? does it not say , ( I care not how consistently , ) but does it not say , that their conduct with regard to America has been always governed by this policy ? It goes a great deal further . These ...
... opinion of the king's servants ? does it not say , ( I care not how consistently , ) but does it not say , that their conduct with regard to America has been always governed by this policy ? It goes a great deal further . These ...
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... opinion , that the plan I have stated to you will certainly take place , and that it will never be departed from ; and so determined am I forever to abide by it , that I will be content to be declared infa- mous , if I do not , to the ...
... opinion , that the plan I have stated to you will certainly take place , and that it will never be departed from ; and so determined am I forever to abide by it , that I will be content to be declared infa- mous , if I do not , to the ...
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... opinion , that " it was an act of prohibition , not of revenue . " This is certainly true , that no act avowedly for the purpose of revenue , and with the ordinary title and recital taken together , is found in the statute - book until ...
... opinion , that " it was an act of prohibition , not of revenue . " This is certainly true , that no act avowedly for the purpose of revenue , and with the ordinary title and recital taken together , is found in the statute - book until ...
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... , yet tinge it with their own hue . He was bred in a pro- fession . He was bred to the law , which is , in my opinion , one of the first and noblest of human sci- - - - ences , a science which does more SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 37.
... , yet tinge it with their own hue . He was bred in a pro- fession . He was bred to the law , which is , in my opinion , one of the first and noblest of human sci- - - - ences , a science which does more SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 37.
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