The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...Little, Brown, and Company, 1899 - Great Britain |
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... Debts the references were found to be con- fused , and , in many places , erroneous . This proba- bly had arisen from the circumstance that a larger and differently constructed appendix seems to have been originally designed by Mr ...
... Debts the references were found to be con- fused , and , in many places , erroneous . This proba- bly had arisen from the circumstance that a larger and differently constructed appendix seems to have been originally designed by Mr ...
Page 279
... debt , and the loss of her ultramarine dominions lessened her expenses . Her colo- nies had , indeed , put themselves into the hands of the English ; but the property of her subjects had been pre- served by capitulations , and a way ...
... debt , and the loss of her ultramarine dominions lessened her expenses . Her colo- nies had , indeed , put themselves into the hands of the English ; but the property of her subjects had been pre- served by capitulations , and a way ...
Page 281
... debt . If her troops are cut to pieces , they will by her policy ( and a wonderful policy it is ) be improved , and will be supplied with much better men . If the war is carried on in the colonies , he tells them † that the loss of her ...
... debt . If her troops are cut to pieces , they will by her policy ( and a wonderful policy it is ) be improved , and will be supplied with much better men . If the war is carried on in the colonies , he tells them † that the loss of her ...
Page 287
... debts contracted in the few years we held them . The property , therefore , of their whole prod- uce was ours ; not only during the war , but even for more than a year after the peace . The author , I hope , will not again venture upon ...
... debts contracted in the few years we held them . The property , therefore , of their whole prod- uce was ours ; not only during the war , but even for more than a year after the peace . The author , I hope , will not again venture upon ...
Page 294
... debt will go hand in hand ; and lastly , that the more money you want , the harder it will be to get it ; and that the scarcity of the commodity will enhance the price . Who ever doubted the truth , or the insignificance , of these ...
... debt will go hand in hand ; and lastly , that the more money you want , the harder it will be to get it ; and that the scarcity of the commodity will enhance the price . Who ever doubted the truth , or the insignificance , of these ...
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