Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent, 1961 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina 93
... England , not- withstanding its legal rights , is in reality no more than a sort of private sect , not composing most probably the tenth of the people . The colonists left England when this spirit was high , and in the emigrants was the ...
... England , not- withstanding its legal rights , is in reality no more than a sort of private sect , not composing most probably the tenth of the people . The colonists left England when this spirit was high , and in the emigrants was the ...
Pagina 114
... England in perpetual alarm . Benefits from it to the state there were none . Wales was only known to England by incursion and invasion . Sir , during that state of things , Parliament was not idle . They attempted to subdue the fierce ...
... England in perpetual alarm . Benefits from it to the state there were none . Wales was only known to England by incursion and invasion . Sir , during that state of things , Parliament was not idle . They attempted to subdue the fierce ...
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... England must be more burthened by one penny raised in America , than by three in England ; and if that penny be raised with the uneasi- ness , the discontent , and the confusion of America , more than by ten . If the opinion and wish of ...
... England must be more burthened by one penny raised in America , than by three in England ; and if that penny be raised with the uneasi- ness , the discontent , and the confusion of America , more than by ten . If the opinion and wish of ...
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INTRODUCTION by Canon Peter McKevitt | 1 |
SPEECH AT HIS ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL BEFORE | 64 |
ON CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES | 76 |
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