The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... trust of finance , of the revenues , and in the first rank 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 ...
... trust of finance , of the revenues , and in the first rank 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 ...
Page 65
... trust , to what you think ray disposition ) to remark the errors into which the authority of great names has brought the nation , with- out doing justice at the same time to the great quali- ties whence that authority arose . The ...
... trust , to what you think ray disposition ) to remark the errors into which the authority of great names has brought the nation , with- out doing justice at the same time to the great quali- ties whence that authority arose . The ...
Page 77
... that those who look for a revenue from the provinces never could have pursued , even in that light , a course more directly repugnant to their purposes . Now , Sir , I trust I have shown , SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 77.
... that those who look for a revenue from the provinces never could have pursued , even in that light , a course more directly repugnant to their purposes . Now , Sir , I trust I have shown , SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 77.
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Edmund Burke. Now , Sir , I trust I have shown , first on that nar- row ground which the honorable gentleman meas- ured , that you are like to lose nothing by complying with the motion , except what you have lost already . I have shown ...
Edmund Burke. Now , Sir , I trust I have shown , first on that nar- row ground which the honorable gentleman meas- ured , that you are like to lose nothing by complying with the motion , except what you have lost already . I have shown ...
Page 85
... trust which you have to confer on this occasion , and , by long ex- perience , so just a diffidence in my abilities to fill it in a manner adequate even to my own ideas , that I should never have ventured of myself to intrude into that ...
... trust which you have to confer on this occasion , and , by long ex- perience , so just a diffidence in my abilities to fill it in a manner adequate even to my own ideas , that I should never have ventured of myself to intrude into that ...
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