 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pagina’s
...would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable...nothing else, that we are at issue. It is a principle of politics. expediency. Your act of 1767 asserts, that it is expedient to raise a revenue in America... | |
 | 1775 - 868 pagina’s
...made him a (lave. It is the weight qf that preamble, of which you are fofond, and not the weight of duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling...bear. It is then, Sir, upon the principle of this roeafure, arid nothing elfe, that we are at ilFue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 604 pagina’s
...would have made him a flave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are fo fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable...bear. It is then, Sir, upon the principle of this meafure, and nothing elfe, that we are at iffue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your act... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pagina’s
...would have made him a flave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are fo fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable...bear. It is then, Sir, upon the principle of this meafure, and nothing elfe, that we are at iffue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your act... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1792 - 608 pagina’s
...would have made him a flave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are fo fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable...bear. It is then, Sir, upon the principle of this meafure, and nothing elfe, that we are at iflue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your Aft... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pagina’s
...would have made him a flave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are fo fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear. Ibid. AMERICA (HOUSE OF COMMONS.) IT was in America that your refolutions were pre-declared. It was... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 462 pagina’s
...would have made him a flave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are fo fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable...bear. It is then, Sir, upon the principle of this meafure, and nothing elfe, that we are at iflue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your act... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 522 pagina’s
...would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable...expedient to raise a revenue in America ; your act of 1769, which takes away that revenue, contradicts the act of 1767 ; and, by something much stronger... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pagina’s
...would have made him. a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable...expedient to raise a revenue in America; your act of 1769, which takes away that revenue, contradicts th.e act of 1767 ; and, by something much stronger... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pagina’s
...would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable...expedient to raise a revenue in America ;your act of 1769, which takes away that revenue, contradicts the act of 1767 ; and, by something much stronger... | |
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... Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of... 
