Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent, 1961 - 295 pagina's |
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... hands as to afford room for an immense future population , although the crown not only withheld its grants , but annihilated its soil . If this be the case , then the only effect of this avarice of desolation , this hoarding of a royal ...
... hands as to afford room for an immense future population , although the crown not only withheld its grants , but annihilated its soil . If this be the case , then the only effect of this avarice of desolation , this hoarding of a royal ...
Pagina 103
... hands at once . But when we talk of en franchisement , do we not perceive that the American master may enfranchise too , and arm servile hands in defence of freedom ? A measure to which other people have had recourse more than once ...
... hands at once . But when we talk of en franchisement , do we not perceive that the American master may enfranchise too , and arm servile hands in defence of freedom ? A measure to which other people have had recourse more than once ...
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... hands ; and yet I have lived to see prudence and conformity to circumstances wholly set at nought in our late controversies , and treated as if they were the most contemptible and irrational of all things . I have heard it a hundred ...
... hands ; and yet I have lived to see prudence and conformity to circumstances wholly set at nought in our late controversies , and treated as if they were the most contemptible and irrational of all things . I have heard it a hundred ...
Inhoudsopgave
INTRODUCTION by Canon Peter McKevitt | 1 |
SPEECH AT HIS ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL BEFORE | 64 |
ON CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES | 76 |
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