The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 44
... whilst the Stamp Act was under deliberation , they refused with scorn even so much as to receive four petitions presented from so respectable colonies as Connecticut , Rhode Island , Virginia , and Carolina , besides one from the ...
... whilst the Stamp Act was under deliberation , they refused with scorn even so much as to receive four petitions presented from so respectable colonies as Connecticut , Rhode Island , Virginia , and Carolina , besides one from the ...
Page 49
... whilst they trembled at the pros- pect of such distresses as you have since brought upon ↑ General Conway . * Mr . Dowdeswell . VOL . II . yourselves , were not afraid steadily to look in the SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 49.
... whilst they trembled at the pros- pect of such distresses as you have since brought upon ↑ General Conway . * Mr . Dowdeswell . VOL . II . yourselves , were not afraid steadily to look in the SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 49.
Page 76
... whilst they are equal to the common ends of their institution : But in order to enable Parliament to answer all these ends of provident and beneficent superintendence , her powers must be boundless . The gentlemen who think the powers ...
... whilst they are equal to the common ends of their institution : But in order to enable Parliament to answer all these ends of provident and beneficent superintendence , her powers must be boundless . The gentlemen who think the powers ...
Page 77
... whilst we held this happy course , we drew more from the colonies than all the impotent violence of despotism ever could extort from them . We did this abundantly in the last war ; it has never been once denied ; and what reason have we ...
... whilst we held this happy course , we drew more from the colonies than all the impotent violence of despotism ever could extort from them . We did this abundantly in the last war ; it has never been once denied ; and what reason have we ...
Page 93
... Whilst these words were hardly out of my mouth , if I should have wheeled round at once , and told them , " Get you gone , you pack of worth- less fellows ! you have no votes , you are usurpers ! you are intruders on the rights of real ...
... Whilst these words were hardly out of my mouth , if I should have wheeled round at once , and told them , " Get you gone , you pack of worth- less fellows ! you have no votes , you are usurpers ! you are intruders on the rights of real ...
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