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... favour- ite preamble : 5 Whereas it is expedient that a revenue should be raised in your Majesty's dominions in America , for making a more certain and adequate provision for defraying the charge of 10 the administration of justice ...
... favour- ite preamble : 5 Whereas it is expedient that a revenue should be raised in your Majesty's dominions in America , for making a more certain and adequate provision for defraying the charge of 10 the administration of justice ...
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... favour , and in power ; and urging the punishment of the very offence to which they had themselves been the tempters . Sir , if reasons respecting simply your own commerce , which is your own convenience , were the sole ground of the ...
... favour , and in power ; and urging the punishment of the very offence to which they had themselves been the tempters . Sir , if reasons respecting simply your own commerce , which is your own convenience , were the sole ground of the ...
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... almost to a winter's return of light , their fate from your resolutions . When , at length , 30 you had determined in their favour , and your doors , thrown 5 open , showed them the figure of their deliverer SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
... almost to a winter's return of light , their fate from your resolutions . When , at length , 30 you had determined in their favour , and your doors , thrown 5 open , showed them the figure of their deliverer SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
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... favour of those who would tax America , the scene of col- 25 lection was changed , and , with the rest , it was levied in the colonies . What need I say more ? This fine - spun scheme had the usual sate of all exquisite policy . But the ...
... favour of those who would tax America , the scene of col- 25 lection was changed , and , with the rest , it was levied in the colonies . What need I say more ? This fine - spun scheme had the usual sate of all exquisite policy . But the ...
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... favour which my friends have hitherto endeavoured to pro- cure for me , by the most obliging , and to me the most honourable , exertions . I have so high an opinion of the great trust which you have to confer on this occasion ; and , by ...
... favour which my friends have hitherto endeavoured to pro- cure for me , by the most obliging , and to me the most honourable , exertions . I have so high an opinion of the great trust which you have to confer on this occasion ; and , by ...
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