The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1866 - Great Britain |
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... regard to America , their causes , and their consequences . With regard to the latter ground , he states it as useless , and thinks it may be even dangerous , to enter into so extensive a field of inquiry . Yet , to my surprise , he had ...
... regard to America , their causes , and their consequences . With regard to the latter ground , he states it as useless , and thinks it may be even dangerous , to enter into so extensive a field of inquiry . Yet , to my surprise , he had ...
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... regard to their relations or dependencies . They never had any kind of sys- tem , right or wrong ; but only invented occasionally some miserable tale for the day , in order meanly to sneak out of difficulties into which they had proudly ...
... regard to their relations or dependencies . They never had any kind of sys- tem , right or wrong ; but only invented occasionally some miserable tale for the day , in order meanly to sneak out of difficulties into which they had proudly ...
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... regard to America has been always governed by this policy ? It goes a great deal further . These excellent and trusty servants of the king , justly fearful lest they themselves should have lost all credit with the world , bring out the ...
... regard to America has been always governed by this policy ? It goes a great deal further . These excellent and trusty servants of the king , justly fearful lest they themselves should have lost all credit with the world , bring out the ...
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... regard to its colonies . Sir , that policy was , from the beginning , purely commercial ; and the commercial system was wholly restrictive . It was the system of a monopoly . No trade was let loose from that constraint , but mere- ly to ...
... regard to its colonies . Sir , that policy was , from the beginning , purely commercial ; and the commercial system was wholly restrictive . It was the system of a monopoly . No trade was let loose from that constraint , but mere- ly to ...
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... regard to the plantations , the words which distin- guish revenue laws specifically as such were , I think , premeditately avoided . I do not say , Sir , that a form of words alters the nature of the law , or abridges the power of the ...
... regard to the plantations , the words which distin- guish revenue laws specifically as such were , I think , premeditately avoided . I do not say , Sir , that a form of words alters the nature of the law , or abridges the power of the ...
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