The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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Page 265
... stamp act ; But the constitutional superiority of Great Britain was preserved by the act for securing the dependence of the colonies . Private houses were relieved from the jurisdiction of the excise , by the repeal of the cider tax ...
... stamp act ; But the constitutional superiority of Great Britain was preserved by the act for securing the dependence of the colonies . Private houses were relieved from the jurisdiction of the excise , by the repeal of the cider tax ...
Page 379
... act of the 5th Geo . III . , that some of these regulations had laid an unnecessary restraint on the trade and corre ... Stamp Act . 2. To the commercial regulations then made . 3. To the course of foreign negotiations dur- ing that ...
... act of the 5th Geo . III . , that some of these regulations had laid an unnecessary restraint on the trade and corre ... Stamp Act . 2. To the commercial regulations then made . 3. To the course of foreign negotiations dur- ing that ...
Page 386
... Stamp Act , they allowed time for all the discontents of that country to fester and come to a head , and for all the arrangements which factious men could make towards an opposition to the 386 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION.
... Stamp Act , they allowed time for all the discontents of that country to fester and come to a head , and for all the arrangements which factious men could make towards an opposition to the 386 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PUBLICATION.
Page 389
... Stamp Act ; and , in consequence , an universal stop to the course of justice , and to trade and navigation , throughout that great important country ; an interval during which the trading interest of England lay under the most dreadful ...
... Stamp Act ; and , in consequence , an universal stop to the course of justice , and to trade and navigation , throughout that great important country ; an interval during which the trading interest of England lay under the most dreadful ...
Page 397
... Stamp Act in Parliament , they had the whole of the American con- stitution and commerce very fully before them ... act ; and they who agreed with administration in the principles of that law , equally made , as well the reasons on which ...
... Stamp Act in Parliament , they had the whole of the American con- stitution and commerce very fully before them ... act ; and they who agreed with administration in the principles of that law , equally made , as well the reasons on which ...
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