Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent, 1961 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina 83
... commerce of your colonies is out of all proportion beyond the numbers of the people . This ground of their commerce indeed has been trod some days ago , and with great ability , by a distinguished person , 1 at your bar . This gentleman ...
... commerce of your colonies is out of all proportion beyond the numbers of the people . This ground of their commerce indeed has been trod some days ago , and with great ability , by a distinguished person , 1 at your bar . This gentleman ...
Pagina 87
... commerce with our colonies fiction lags after truth , invention is unfruitful , and imagination cold and barren . So far , Sir , as to the importance of the object in view of its commerce , as concerned in the exports from England . If ...
... commerce with our colonies fiction lags after truth , invention is unfruitful , and imagination cold and barren . So far , Sir , as to the importance of the object in view of its commerce , as concerned in the exports from England . If ...
Pagina 276
... commerce . author will furnish some ground to his theories , and com- municate a discovery to the public , if he can show this by any medium . But he tells us that “ their seas are covered with ships , and their rivers floating with ...
... commerce . author will furnish some ground to his theories , and com- municate a discovery to the public , if he can show this by any medium . But he tells us that “ their seas are covered with ships , and their rivers floating with ...
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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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