The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 55
Edmund Burke. tachment to his royal person and government , . . . . will firmly and effectually support his Majesty in all such measures as shall be necessary for preserving and securing the legal dependence of the colonies upon this ...
Edmund Burke. tachment to his royal person and government , . . . . will firmly and effectually support his Majesty in all such measures as shall be necessary for preserving and securing the legal dependence of the colonies upon this ...
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... persons who formerly trumpeted forth the most loudly the violent resolu- tions of assemblies , the universal insurrections , the seizing and burning the stamped papers , the forcing stamp officers to resign their commissions under the ...
... persons who formerly trumpeted forth the most loudly the violent resolu- tions of assemblies , the universal insurrections , the seizing and burning the stamped papers , the forcing stamp officers to resign their commissions under the ...
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... . " " I beg a thousand pardons . " I venture to say , it did so happen that persons had a single office divided between them , who had --- - - never spoke to each other in their lives , until 62 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
... . " " I beg a thousand pardons . " I venture to say , it did so happen that persons had a single office divided between them , who had --- - - never spoke to each other in their lives , until 62 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
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... persons for whom they had no particular regard . The whole body of courtiers drove him onward . They always talked as if the king stood in a sort of humiliated state , until something of the kind should be done . Here this extraordinary ...
... persons for whom they had no particular regard . The whole body of courtiers drove him onward . They always talked as if the king stood in a sort of humiliated state , until something of the kind should be done . Here this extraordinary ...
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... persons , infinitely his inferiors in all re- spects , had formerly rendered themselves considera- ble in this House by one method alone . They were a race of men ( I hope in God the species is extinct ) who , when they rose in their ...
... persons , infinitely his inferiors in all re- spects , had formerly rendered themselves considera- ble in this House by one method alone . They were a race of men ( I hope in God the species is extinct ) who , when they rose in their ...
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