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... EDMUND BURKE , ESQ ON AMERICAN TAXATION , APRIL 19 , 1774 . THE SECOND EDITION . ። LONDON : Printed for J. DODSLEY , in PALL - MALL MDCCLXXV . [ Price TWO SHILLINGS . ] PREFACE The following speech has been much the subject of SPEECH.
... EDMUND BURKE , ESQ ON AMERICAN TAXATION , APRIL 19 , 1774 . THE SECOND EDITION . ። LONDON : Printed for J. DODSLEY , in PALL - MALL MDCCLXXV . [ Price TWO SHILLINGS . ] PREFACE The following speech has been much the subject of SPEECH.
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... shillings . Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ! 30 but the payment of half twenty shillings , on the principle it was demanded , would have made him a slave . It is the weight of that preamble , of which you ...
... shillings . Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ! 30 but the payment of half twenty shillings , on the principle it was demanded , would have made him a slave . It is the weight of that preamble , of which you ...
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... shilling to threepence . But to secure the favor of those who would tax America , the scene of collection was changed , 20 and , with the rest , it was levied in the colonies . What need I say more ? This fine - spun scheme had the ...
... shilling to threepence . But to secure the favor of those who would tax America , the scene of collection was changed , 20 and , with the rest , it was levied in the colonies . What need I say more ? This fine - spun scheme had the ...
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... shillings per chaldron of 2250 pounds . 11 20 Tea is perhaps the most important object : Tea was the chief article of trade of the East India Company . The colonies consumed one third of the tea exported from India ; each year they ...
... shillings per chaldron of 2250 pounds . 11 20 Tea is perhaps the most important object : Tea was the chief article of trade of the East India Company . The colonies consumed one third of the tea exported from India ; each year they ...
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... shillings a hundred- weight . 14 22 tea could bear an imposition : Tea was taxed 100 per cent in England . In 1827 tea imported into the United States paid the same tax . In 1900 a tax of ten cents a pound was imposed on the eighty ...
... shillings a hundred- weight . 14 22 tea could bear an imposition : Tea was taxed 100 per cent in England . In 1827 tea imported into the United States paid the same tax . In 1900 a tax of ten cents a pound was imposed on the eighty ...
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