The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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... resolutions were pre - declared . It was from thence that we knew to a certainty how much exactly , and not a scruple more nor less , we were to repeal . We were unworthy to be let into the secret of our own conduct . The assemblies had ...
... resolutions were pre - declared . It was from thence that we knew to a certainty how much exactly , and not a scruple more nor less , we were to repeal . We were unworthy to be let into the secret of our own conduct . The assemblies had ...
Page 28
... resolution either to keep that tax or to give it up . There is no fair dealing in any part of the transac tion . If you mean to follow your true motive and your public faith , give up your tax on tea for raising a revenue , the ...
... resolution either to keep that tax or to give it up . There is no fair dealing in any part of the transac tion . If you mean to follow your true motive and your public faith , give up your tax on tea for raising a revenue , the ...
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... resolution not to pay that specific tax , you manifestly showed a hankering after the principle of the act which you formerly had renounced . What- ever road you take leads to a compliance with this motion . It opens to you at the end ...
... resolution not to pay that specific tax , you manifestly showed a hankering after the principle of the act which you formerly had renounced . What- ever road you take leads to a compliance with this motion . It opens to you at the end ...
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... resolved on , a revenue was to be found to support so great a burden . Country gentlemen , the great patrons of economy , and the great resisters of a standing armed force , would not have entered with much alacrity into the vote for so ...
... resolved on , a revenue was to be found to support so great a burden . Country gentlemen , the great patrons of economy , and the great resisters of a standing armed force , would not have entered with much alacrity into the vote for so ...
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... resolution of the House , and before the passing of the Stamp Act , the colonies of Massachu- setts Bay and New York did send remonstrances objecting to this mode of Parliamentary taxation . What was the consequence ? They were ...
... resolution of the House , and before the passing of the Stamp Act , the colonies of Massachu- setts Bay and New York did send remonstrances objecting to this mode of Parliamentary taxation . What was the consequence ? They were ...
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