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Page 47
... nine years after , the honorable gentleman takes quite opposite ground , and
now challenges me to put my hand to my heart and say whether the ministry had
resolved on the repeal till a considerable time after the meeting of Parliament .
... nine years after , the honorable gentleman takes quite opposite ground , and
now challenges me to put my hand to my heart and say whether the ministry had
resolved on the repeal till a considerable time after the meeting of Parliament .
Page 58
... not having strength enough in her hands to enforce obedience to the laws of
the community . - The private distress , which every soever . man feels , increases
the general dissatisfaction at the duties 58 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
... not having strength enough in her hands to enforce obedience to the laws of
the community . - The private distress , which every soever . man feels , increases
the general dissatisfaction at the duties 58 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
Page 61
... hands of Lord Chatham , a great and celebrated name , - a name that keeps
the name of this country respectable in every other on the globe . It may be truly
called Clarum et venerabile nomen Gentibus , et multum nostrę quod proderat
urbi ...
... hands of Lord Chatham , a great and celebrated name , - a name that keeps
the name of this country respectable in every other on the globe . It may be truly
called Clarum et venerabile nomen Gentibus , et multum nostrę quod proderat
urbi ...
Page 72
... all this is in the hand of Providence . Yet now , even now , I should confide in
the prevailing virtue and efficacious operation of lenity , though working in
darkness and in chaos , in the midst of all this unnatural and turbid combination : I
should ...
... all this is in the hand of Providence . Yet now , even now , I should confide in
the prevailing virtue and efficacious operation of lenity , though working in
darkness and in chaos , in the midst of all this unnatural and turbid combination : I
should ...
Page 104
The public , he said , would not have patience to see us play the game out with
our adversaries ; we must produce our hand : it would be expected that those
who for many years had been active in such affairs should show that they had
formed ...
The public , he said , would not have patience to see us play the game out with
our adversaries ; we must produce our hand : it would be expected that those
who for many years had been active in such affairs should show that they had
formed ...
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| Title | The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2 The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke |
| Author | Edmund Burke |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, and Company, 1881 |
| Original from | Michigan State University |
| Digitized | 26 Apr 2013 |
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