The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 57
... passing , encouraged the Americans to their resistance . This has even for- mally appeared in print in a regular volume ... passed with so very , very little noise , that in town they scarcely knew the nature of what you were doing . The ...
... passing , encouraged the Americans to their resistance . This has even for- mally appeared in print in a regular volume ... passed with so very , very little noise , that in town they scarcely knew the nature of what you were doing . The ...
Page 64
... passed and set forever . You un- derstand , to be sure , that I speak of Charles Towns- hend , officially the reproducer of this fatal scheme , whom I cannot even now remember without some de- gree of sensibility . In truth , Sir , he ...
... passed and set forever . You un- derstand , to be sure , that I speak of Charles Towns- hend , officially the reproducer of this fatal scheme , whom I cannot even now remember without some de- gree of sensibility . In truth , Sir , he ...
Page 89
... passed his whole life amongst you , —if he , who , through the easy gradations of acquaintance , friendship , and esteem , has obtained the honor which seems of itself , natu- rally and almost insensibly , to meet with those who , by ...
... passed his whole life amongst you , —if he , who , through the easy gradations of acquaintance , friendship , and esteem , has obtained the honor which seems of itself , natu- rally and almost insensibly , to meet with those who , by ...
Page 94
... touched upon by my worthy col- league . I wish that topic had been passed by at a time when I have so little leisure to discuss it . But since he has thought proper to throw it out , 94 • SPEECH AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE POLL .
... touched upon by my worthy col- league . I wish that topic had been passed by at a time when I have so little leisure to discuss it . But since he has thought proper to throw it out , 94 • SPEECH AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE POLL .
Page 101
... passed sentence on the trade and sustenance of Amer ica is to be returned to us from the other House . * do confess , I could not help looking on this event as a fortunate omen . I look upon it as a sort of Prov- idential favor , by ...
... passed sentence on the trade and sustenance of Amer ica is to be returned to us from the other House . * do confess , I could not help looking on this event as a fortunate omen . I look upon it as a sort of Prov- idential favor , by ...
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