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Edmund Burke. THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE EDMUND BURKE .
SEVENTH EDITION . VOL . II . ROY FOY . UNC LOY BOSTON : LITTLE , BROWN
, AND COMPANY . 1881 . 9064 v . 2 UNIVERSITY Press : John Wilson &
Edmund Burke. THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE EDMUND BURKE .
SEVENTH EDITION . VOL . II . ROY FOY . UNC LOY BOSTON : LITTLE , BROWN
, AND COMPANY . 1881 . 9064 v . 2 UNIVERSITY Press : John Wilson &
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You were distressed in the affairs of the East India Company ; and you well know
what sort of things are involved in the comprehensive energy of that significant
appellation . I am not called upon to enla , ge to you on that danger , which you ...
You were distressed in the affairs of the East India Company ; and you well know
what sort of things are involved in the comprehensive energy of that significant
appellation . I am not called upon to enla , ge to you on that danger , which you ...
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... and because , by enabling the East India Company to open a shop for
defeating the American resolution not to pay that specific tax , you manifestly
showed a lankering after the principle of the act which you formerly had
renounced .
... and because , by enabling the East India Company to open a shop for
defeating the American resolution not to pay that specific tax , you manifestly
showed a lankering after the principle of the act which you formerly had
renounced .
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Your right to give a monopoly to the East India Company , your right to lay
immense duties on French brandy , are not disputed in England . You do not
make this charge on any man . But you know that there 34 SPEECH ON
AMERICAN ...
Your right to give a monopoly to the East India Company , your right to lay
immense duties on French brandy , are not disputed in England . You do not
make this charge on any man . But you know that there 34 SPEECH ON
AMERICAN ...
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... as publicly to assert , in an hundred companies , that the honorable gentleman
under the gallery , * who proposed the repeal in the American committee , had
another set of resolutions in his pocket , directly the reverse of those he moved .
... as publicly to assert , in an hundred companies , that the honorable gentleman
under the gallery , * who proposed the repeal in the American committee , had
another set of resolutions in his pocket , directly the reverse of those he moved .
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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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