The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1George Bell, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... revenues . They lost all concern for their common honour or safety , and could bear no advice that tended to reform them . At this time truth became offensive to those lords , the people , and most highly dangerous to the speaker . The ...
... revenues . They lost all concern for their common honour or safety , and could bear no advice that tended to reform them . At this time truth became offensive to those lords , the people , and most highly dangerous to the speaker . The ...
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... revenues are committed in defiance of justice ; and abuses grow , by time and impunity , into customs ; until they prescribe against the laws , and grow too inveterate often to admit a cure , un- less such as may be as bad as the ...
... revenues are committed in defiance of justice ; and abuses grow , by time and impunity , into customs ; until they prescribe against the laws , and grow too inveterate often to admit a cure , un- less such as may be as bad as the ...
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... revenue was improved , and settled upon a rational foundation - its commerce extended with foreign countries ; while all the advantages were secured to Great Britain , by the act for repealing certain duties , and en- couraging ...
... revenue was improved , and settled upon a rational foundation - its commerce extended with foreign countries ; while all the advantages were secured to Great Britain , by the act for repealing certain duties , and en- couraging ...
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... revenue we have seen are Lord Despenser and Mr. George Grenville ; and , under the description of men of virtue and ability , he holds them out to us as the only persons fit to put our affairs in order . Let not the reader mistake me ...
... revenue we have seen are Lord Despenser and Mr. George Grenville ; and , under the description of men of virtue and ability , he holds them out to us as the only persons fit to put our affairs in order . Let not the reader mistake me ...
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... revenue ; and a deficiency of our funds must either be made up by fresh taxes , which would only add to the calamity ; or our national credit must be destroyed , by showing the public creditors the inability of the nation to repay them ...
... revenue ; and a deficiency of our funds must either be made up by fresh taxes , which would only add to the calamity ; or our national credit must be destroyed , by showing the public creditors the inability of the nation to repay them ...
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