The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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Page 40
... revenues . They lost all con- cern for their common honor or safety , and could bear no advice that tended to reform them . At this time truth became offensive to those lords the people , and most highly dangerous to the speaker . The ...
... revenues . They lost all con- cern for their common honor or safety , and could bear no advice that tended to reform them . At this time truth became offensive to those lords the people , and most highly dangerous to the speaker . The ...
Page 48
... revenues are committed in defiance of justice ; and abuses grow , by time and impunity , into cus- toms ; until they prescribe against the laws , and grow too inveterate often to admit a cure , unless such as may be as bad as the ...
... revenues are committed in defiance of justice ; and abuses grow , by time and impunity , into cus- toms ; until they prescribe against the laws , and grow too inveterate often to admit a cure , unless such as may be as bad as the ...
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... . The trade of America was set free from injudicious and ruinous impositions , its revenue was improved , and settled upon a rational foundation , -its com- - merce extended with foreign countries ; while all the advantages.
... . The trade of America was set free from injudicious and ruinous impositions , its revenue was improved , and settled upon a rational foundation , -its com- - merce extended with foreign countries ; while all the advantages.
Page 279
... revenue ; and a defi- ciency of our funds must either be made up by fresh taxes , which would only add to the calamity , or our national credit must be destroyed , by showing the public creditors the inability of the nation to repay ...
... revenue ; and a defi- ciency of our funds must either be made up by fresh taxes , which would only add to the calamity , or our national credit must be destroyed , by showing the public creditors the inability of the nation to repay ...
Page 280
... revenue ; if a continued series of disappointments , disgraces , and defeats , followed by public bankruptcy , on the part of France ; if all these still leave her a gainer on the whole bal- ance , will it not be downright frenzy in us ...
... revenue ; if a continued series of disappointments , disgraces , and defeats , followed by public bankruptcy , on the part of France ; if all these still leave her a gainer on the whole bal- ance , will it not be downright frenzy in us ...
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