The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 67
... Company ) on none of the grand objects of commerce . To counter- work the American contraband , the duty on tea was reduced from a shilling to three - pence ; but to se- cure the favor of those who would tax America , the scene of ...
... Company ) on none of the grand objects of commerce . To counter- work the American contraband , the duty on tea was reduced from a shilling to three - pence ; but to se- cure the favor of those who would tax America , the scene of ...
Page 72
... company it may keep . In such heterogeneous assortments , the most innocent person will lose the effect of his innocency . Though you should send out this angel of peace , yet you are send- ing out a destroying angel too ; and what ...
... company it may keep . In such heterogeneous assortments , the most innocent person will lose the effect of his innocency . Though you should send out this angel of peace , yet you are send- ing out a destroying angel too ; and what ...
Page 140
... company . The question with me is , not whether you have a right to render your people miserable , but whether it is not your interest to make them happy . It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do , but what hu- manity , reason , and ...
... company . The question with me is , not whether you have a right to render your people miserable , but whether it is not your interest to make them happy . It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do , but what hu- manity , reason , and ...
Page 143
... company with it , and which are often urged from the same mouths and on the same day . For instance , when we allege that it is against rea- son to tax a people under so many restraints in trade as the Americans , the noble lord * in ...
... company with it , and which are often urged from the same mouths and on the same day . For instance , when we allege that it is against rea- son to tax a people under so many restraints in trade as the Americans , the noble lord * in ...
Page 179
Edmund Burke. stitution fit for the transmission , it is the East India Company . America has none of these aptitudes . If America gives you taxable objects on which you lay your duties here , and gives you at the same time surplus by a ...
Edmund Burke. stitution fit for the transmission , it is the East India Company . America has none of these aptitudes . If America gives you taxable objects on which you lay your duties here , and gives you at the same time surplus by a ...
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