Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent, 1911 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina viii
... Lord North were for him revolutionary incendiaries . When Burke entered the House of Commons in 1765 , American affairs were already at a critical stage . A long train of events had been leading on to the final catastrophe . Laws for ...
... Lord North were for him revolutionary incendiaries . When Burke entered the House of Commons in 1765 , American affairs were already at a critical stage . A long train of events had been leading on to the final catastrophe . Laws for ...
Pagina xii
... Lord Norths - slaves of com- placent prejudice and easy - going , short - sighted oppor- tunism . There will always be those whose instinct , when they are brought face to face with some great crisis , is to coerce rather than ...
... Lord Norths - slaves of com- placent prejudice and easy - going , short - sighted oppor- tunism . There will always be those whose instinct , when they are brought face to face with some great crisis , is to coerce rather than ...
Pagina 1
... by three - fifths on re - exportation to the colonies . ' Charles Wolfran Cornwall , Esq . , lately appointed one of the lords of the treasury . disagreeably to this House , very unfortunately to this nation AMERICAN TAXATION.
... by three - fifths on re - exportation to the colonies . ' Charles Wolfran Cornwall , Esq . , lately appointed one of the lords of the treasury . disagreeably to this House , very unfortunately to this nation AMERICAN TAXATION.
Pagina 5
... lord out of the hands of those he calls his friends , and even out of his own . I will do him the justice he is denied at home . He has not been this wicked or imprudent man . He knew that a repeal had no tendency to produce the ...
... lord out of the hands of those he calls his friends , and even out of his own . I will do him the justice he is denied at home . He has not been this wicked or imprudent man . He knew that a repeal had no tendency to produce the ...
Pagina 6
... lord who sits by him , to settle the matter as well as they can together ; for if the repeal of American taxes destroys all our government in America - He is the man ! --and he is the worst of all the repealers , because he is the last ...
... lord who sits by him , to settle the matter as well as they can together ; for if the repeal of American taxes destroys all our government in America - He is the man ! --and he is the worst of all the repealers , because he is the last ...
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