The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2Little, Brown,, 1881 - Great Britain |
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Page 31
... whole period , a Parliamentary rev- enue from thence was never once in contemplation . Accordingly , in all the number of laws passed with regard to the plantations , the words which distin- guish revenue laws specifically as such were ...
... whole period , a Parliamentary rev- enue from thence was never once in contemplation . Accordingly , in all the number of laws passed with regard to the plantations , the words which distin- guish revenue laws specifically as such were ...
Page 34
... whole state of commercial servitude and civil liberty , taken together , is certainly not perfect freedom ; but comparing it with the ordinary circum stances of human nature , it was an happy and a lib- eral condition . \ - - I know ...
... whole state of commercial servitude and civil liberty , taken together , is certainly not perfect freedom ; but comparing it with the ordinary circum stances of human nature , it was an happy and a lib- eral condition . \ - - I know ...
Page 46
... whole veteran body of office took the alarm . A vio- lent outcry of all ( except those who knew and felt the mischief ) was raised against any alteration . On one hand , his attempt was a direct violation of trea ties and public law ...
... whole veteran body of office took the alarm . A vio- lent outcry of all ( except those who knew and felt the mischief ) was raised against any alteration . On one hand , his attempt was a direct violation of trea ties and public law ...
Page 49
... whole embattled legion of veteran pensioners and practised instruments of a court , gave a total repeal to the Stamp Act , and ( if it had been so permitted ) a last- ing peace to this whole empire . I state , Sir , these particulars ...
... whole embattled legion of veteran pensioners and practised instruments of a court , gave a total repeal to the Stamp Act , and ( if it had been so permitted ) a last- ing peace to this whole empire . I state , Sir , these particulars ...
Page 52
... whole trading interest of this empire , crammed into your lobbies , with a trembling and anxious expectation , waited , almost to a winter's return of light , their fate from your resolutions . When at length you had de- termined in ...
... whole trading interest of this empire , crammed into your lobbies , with a trembling and anxious expectation , waited , almost to a winter's return of light , their fate from your resolutions . When at length you had de- termined in ...
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