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... wish to tread the narrow ground to which alone the honour- able gentleman , in one part of his speech , has so strictly 25 confined us . He desires to know , whether , if we were to repeal this tax , agreeably to the proposition of the ...
... wish to tread the narrow ground to which alone the honour- able gentleman , in one part of his speech , has so strictly 25 confined us . He desires to know , whether , if we were to repeal this tax , agreeably to the proposition of the ...
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... wish to repeal , is not declaratory of a right , as some gen- tlemen seem to argue it ; it is only a recital of the expediency of a certain exercise of a right supposed already to have been asserted ; an exercise you are now contending ...
... wish to repeal , is not declaratory of a right , as some gen- tlemen seem to argue it ; it is only a recital of the expediency of a certain exercise of a right supposed already to have been asserted ; an exercise you are now contending ...
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... 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 they did not come to a resolution directly to repeal . They 40 SPEECH ...
... 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 they did not come to a resolution directly to repeal . They 40 SPEECH ...
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... wish to form themselves 20 on whatever of excellence has gone before them . There are many young members in the House ( such of late has been the rapid succession of public men ) who never saw that prodigy , Charles Townshend ; nor of ...
... wish to form themselves 20 on whatever of excellence has gone before them . There are many young members in the House ( such of late has been the rapid succession of public men ) who never saw that prodigy , Charles Townshend ; nor of ...
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... 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 success . I cannot be certain of its reception in the bad ...
... 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 success . I cannot be certain of its reception in the bad ...
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