The works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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... houses were relieved from the jurisdiction of the excife , by the repeal of the cyder - tax . The personal liberty of the subject was confirmed , by the resolution against gencral warrants . B. The The lawful secrets of bufiness and ...
... houses were relieved from the jurisdiction of the excife , by the repeal of the cyder - tax . The personal liberty of the subject was confirmed , by the resolution against gencral warrants . B. The The lawful secrets of bufiness and ...
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... house of commons is swept into this grand reservoir of politicks . As to the compofition , it bears a striking and whimsical resemblance to a funcral sermon , not only in the pathetick prayer with which it concludes , but in the style ...
... house of commons is swept into this grand reservoir of politicks . As to the compofition , it bears a striking and whimsical resemblance to a funcral sermon , not only in the pathetick prayer with which it concludes , but in the style ...
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... house entries , and our merchants , for the advantages which we derived from them . In 1761 , there was no entry of goods from any of the conquered places but Guadaloupe ; in that year it stood thus : £ Imports from Guadaloupe , value ...
... house entries , and our merchants , for the advantages which we derived from them . In 1761 , there was no entry of goods from any of the conquered places but Guadaloupe ; in that year it stood thus : £ Imports from Guadaloupe , value ...
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... house entries ; but we know the direct contrary to be the fact . We know that the West Indians are always indebted to our merchants , and that the value of every shilling of West India produce is Englith praperty . So that our import ...
... house entries ; but we know the direct contrary to be the fact . We know that the West Indians are always indebted to our merchants , and that the value of every shilling of West India produce is Englith praperty . So that our import ...
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... house . How the author can contrive lo make this encrease of the export of English produce agree with his account of tlie dreadful want of hands in England , p . I , unless lie suppose's manufactures to be made without hands , I really ...
... house . How the author can contrive lo make this encrease of the export of English produce agree with his account of tlie dreadful want of hands in England , p . I , unless lie suppose's manufactures to be made without hands , I really ...
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