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... ment ; but obstinacy is not yet conquered.2 The honourable gentleman has made one endeavour more to diversify the form of this disgusting argument . He has thrown out a speech composed almost entirely of challenges . 15 Challenges are ...
... ment ; but obstinacy is not yet conquered.2 The honourable gentleman has made one endeavour more to diversify the form of this disgusting argument . He has thrown out a speech composed almost entirely of challenges . 15 Challenges are ...
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... . By such manage- ment , by the irresistible operation of feeble councils , so paltry 30 a sum as three - pence in the eyes of a financier , so insignifi- cant an article as tea in the eyes of a SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 9.
... . By such manage- ment , by the irresistible operation of feeble councils , so paltry 30 a sum as three - pence in the eyes of a financier , so insignifi- cant an article as tea in the eyes of a SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 9.
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... ment , I suppose he made one step retrograde ( it is but one ) 20 and looked at the act which stands just before in the statute- book . The American revenue act is the forty - fifth chapter ; the other to which I refer is the forty ...
... ment , I suppose he made one step retrograde ( it is but one ) 20 and looked at the act which stands just before in the statute- book . The American revenue act is the forty - fifth chapter ; the other to which I refer is the forty ...
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... ment . Though I do not very well know what the honour- able gentleman wishes to infer from the admission , or from 30 the denial , of this fact , on which he so earnestly adjures me ; I do put my hand on my heart , and assure him , that ...
... ment . Though I do not very well know what the honour- able gentleman wishes to infer from the admission , or from 30 the denial , of this fact , on which he so earnestly adjures me ; I do put my hand on my heart , and assure him , that ...
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... ment . For my part , I should choose ( if I could have my wish ) that the proposition of the honourable gentleman ' for the 20 repeal could go to America without the attendance of the penal bills . Alone I could almost answer for its ...
... ment . For my part , I should choose ( if I could have my wish ) that the proposition of the honourable gentleman ' for the 20 repeal could go to America without the attendance of the penal bills . Alone I could almost answer for its ...
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