The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... principles , there- fore , of the honorable gentleman , upon the principles of the minister himself , the minister has nothing at all to answer . He stands condemned by himself , and by all his associates old and new , as a destroyer ...
... principles , there- fore , of the honorable gentleman , upon the principles of the minister himself , the minister has nothing at all to answer . He stands condemned by himself , and by all his associates old and new , as a destroyer ...
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... principles . It is so said in the paper in my hand : * a paper which I * Lord Hillsborough's Circular Letter to the Governors of the Coio- nies , concerning the repeal of some of the duties laid in the Act of 1767 constantly carry about ...
... principles . It is so said in the paper in my hand : * a paper which I * Lord Hillsborough's Circular Letter to the Governors of the Coio- nies , concerning the repeal of some of the duties laid in the Act of 1767 constantly carry about ...
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... principles I know not ; for , if your government in America is destroyed by the repeal of taxes , it is of no consequence upon what ideas the repeal is grounded . Repeal this tax , too , upon commercial principles , if you please ...
... principles I know not ; for , if your government in America is destroyed by the repeal of taxes , it is of no consequence upon what ideas the repeal is grounded . Repeal this tax , too , upon commercial principles , if you please ...
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... principles had been the true motives to the repeal , or had they been at all attended to , tea would have been the last article we should have left taxed for a subject of con- troversy . Sir , it is not a pleasant consideration , but ...
... principles had been the true motives to the repeal , or had they been at all attended to , tea would have been the last article we should have left taxed for a subject of con- troversy . Sir , it is not a pleasant consideration , but ...
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... principle of this meas- ure , and nothing else , that we are at issue . It is a principle of political expediency . Your act of 1767 asserts that it is expedient to raise a revenue in America ; your act of 1769 , which takes away that ...
... principle of this meas- ure , and nothing else , that we are at issue . It is a principle of political expediency . Your act of 1767 asserts that it is expedient to raise a revenue in America ; your act of 1769 , which takes away that ...
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