The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... Lord Botetourt's speech , express themselves thus : " We will not suffer our present hopes , arising from the pleasing prospect your Lordship hath so kindly opened and displayed to us , to be dashed by the bitter reflection that any ...
... Lord Botetourt's speech , express themselves thus : " We will not suffer our present hopes , arising from the pleasing prospect your Lordship hath so kindly opened and displayed to us , to be dashed by the bitter reflection that any ...
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Edmund Burke. " This epistle was not the letter of Lord Hillsborough solely , though he held the official pen . It was the letter of the noble lord upon the floor , * and of all the king's then ministers , who ( with , I think , the ...
Edmund Burke. " This epistle was not the letter of Lord Hillsborough solely , though he held the official pen . It was the letter of the noble lord upon the floor , * and of all the king's then ministers , who ( with , I think , the ...
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... Lord Hillsborough , in disclaiming in the name of the king and ministry their ever having had an intent to tax for revenue , mention it as the means " of reëstab- lishing the confidence and affection of the colonies ? " Is it a way of ...
... Lord Hillsborough , in disclaiming in the name of the king and ministry their ever having had an intent to tax for revenue , mention it as the means " of reëstab- lishing the confidence and affection of the colonies ? " Is it a way of ...
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... lord was pleased to say , that he did not con ceive how it could enter into the head of man to im- pose such taxes as those of 1767 : I mean those taxes which he voted for imposing , and voted for repealing , - as being taxes , contrary ...
... lord was pleased to say , that he did not con ceive how it could enter into the head of man to im- pose such taxes as those of 1767 : I mean those taxes which he voted for imposing , and voted for repealing , - as being taxes , contrary ...
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... Lord Hillsborough's letter well expresses it , to regain " the confidence and affection of the colo- nies , on which the glory and safety of the British em- pire depend . " A wise and just motive , surely , if ever there was such . But ...
... Lord Hillsborough's letter well expresses it , to regain " the confidence and affection of the colo- nies , on which the glory and safety of the British em- pire depend . " A wise and just motive , surely , if ever there was such . But ...
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