The works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1 |
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Page 13
... whole a sort of portentous air of labour and information , the table of the 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 ...
... whole a sort of portentous air of labour and information , the table of the 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 ...
Page 25
... whole course of the siege of Quebec ; of General Monckton , who was shot through the body there , whether France “ put her colonies into the hands of the English . " Though he has made no exception , yet I would be liberal to him ...
... whole course of the siege of Quebec ; of General Monckton , who was shot through the body there , whether France “ put her colonies into the hands of the English . " Though he has made no exception , yet I would be liberal to him ...
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... whole , the best method . If we should take that standard , it would the balance with our own islands is , annually , several hundred thousand pounds against this country * Such is its aspect on the custom - house entries ; but we know ...
... whole , the best method . If we should take that standard , it would the balance with our own islands is , annually , several hundred thousand pounds against this country * Such is its aspect on the custom - house entries ; but we know ...
Page 29
... whole annual produce of these islands from being adequate to the payments of their annual call upon us , that this mighty additional importation was necessary , though not quite fufficient , to discharge the debts contracted in the few ...
... whole annual produce of these islands from being adequate to the payments of their annual call upon us , that this mighty additional importation was necessary , though not quite fufficient , to discharge the debts contracted in the few ...
Page 30
... whole world ; the ruin of the trade of France , and our possession of her colonies . What wonderful effects this cause produced , the * P. 6 . reader reader will see below * ; and he will form 30 OBSERVATIONS ON ALATE.
... whole world ; the ruin of the trade of France , and our possession of her colonies . What wonderful effects this cause produced , the * P. 6 . reader reader will see below * ; and he will form 30 OBSERVATIONS ON ALATE.
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