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... resolution , I dare say he has very well weighed those challenges before he delivered them . I had long the happiness to sit at the same side of the House , and to agree with the honourable gentleman on all the American 20 questions ...
... resolution , I dare say he has very well weighed those challenges before he delivered them . I had long the happiness to sit at the same side of the House , and to agree with the honourable gentleman on all the American 20 questions ...
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... resolved not to pay . The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain . Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of 25 twenty shillings . Would twenty shillings have ...
... resolved not to pay . The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain . Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of 25 twenty shillings . Would twenty shillings have ...
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... resolutions were pre - declared . It was from thence that we knew to certainty , how much exactly , and not a scruple more or less , we were to repeal . We were unworthy to be let into the secret of our own conduct . The assemblies had ...
... resolutions were pre - declared . It was from thence that we knew to certainty , how much exactly , and not a scruple more or less , we were to repeal . We were unworthy to be let into the secret of our own conduct . The assemblies had ...
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... nothing is said of a resolution either to 30 keep that tax , or to give it up . There is no fair dealing in any part of the transaction . If you mean to follow your true motive and your 22 22 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
... nothing is said of a resolution either to 30 keep that tax , or to give it up . There is no fair dealing in any part of the transaction . If you mean to follow your true motive and your 22 22 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
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... resolution not to pay that specific tax , you manifestly showed a hankering after the principle of the act which you formerly had re- nounced . Whatever road you take leads to a compliance with this motion . It opens to you at the end ...
... resolution not to pay that specific tax , you manifestly showed a hankering after the principle of the act which you formerly had re- nounced . Whatever road you take leads to a compliance with this motion . It opens to you at the end ...
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