The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 59
... taken wing , their importunate buzzing might sound something like the public voice ! Sir , I have troubled you sufficiently with the state of America before the repeal . Now I turn to the honorable gentleman who so stoutly challenges us ...
... taken wing , their importunate buzzing might sound something like the public voice ! Sir , I have troubled you sufficiently with the state of America before the repeal . Now I turn to the honorable gentleman who so stoutly challenges us ...
Page 75
... taken the liberty , with great humility , to lay before you . I look , I say , on the imperial rights of Great Britain , and the privileges which the colonists ought to enjoy under these rights , to be just the most recon- cilable ...
... taken the liberty , with great humility , to lay before you . I look , I say , on the imperial rights of Great Britain , and the privileges which the colonists ought to enjoy under these rights , to be just the most recon- cilable ...
Page 78
... had but one opinion concerning it , since I sat , and before I sat in Par- liament . The noble lord * will , as usual , probably , * Lord North . 1 attribute the part taken by me and my friends 78 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
... had but one opinion concerning it , since I sat , and before I sat in Par- liament . The noble lord * will , as usual , probably , * Lord North . 1 attribute the part taken by me and my friends 78 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
Page 79
Edmund Burke. 1 attribute the part taken by me and my friends in this business to a desire of getting his places . Let him enjoy this happy and original idea . If I deprived him of it , I should take away most of his wit , and all his ...
Edmund Burke. 1 attribute the part taken by me and my friends in this business to a desire of getting his places . Let him enjoy this happy and original idea . If I deprived him of it , I should take away most of his wit , and all his ...
Page 101
... taken its flight forever , we are at this very in stant nearly as free to choose a plan for our Amer- ican government as we were on the first day of the • I * The act to restrain the trade and commerce of the provinces of Massachusetts ...
... taken its flight forever , we are at this very in stant nearly as free to choose a plan for our Amer- ican government as we were on the first day of the • I * The act to restrain the trade and commerce of the provinces of Massachusetts ...
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