Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent, 1911 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina 14
... assemblies we affected to despise , begging them , by the intervention of our ministerial sureties , to receive our submission and heartily promising amendment . These might have been serious matters formerly , but we are grown wiser ...
... assemblies we affected to despise , begging them , by the intervention of our ministerial sureties , to receive our submission and heartily promising amendment . These might have been serious matters formerly , but we are grown wiser ...
Pagina 16
... assemblies . It was in America that your resolutions were predeclared . It was from thence that we knew to a certainty , how much exactly , and not a scruple more or less , we were to repeal . We were unworthy to be let into the secret ...
... assemblies . It was in America that your resolutions were predeclared . It was from thence that we knew to a certainty , how much exactly , and not a scruple more or less , we were to repeal . We were unworthy to be let into the secret ...
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... assemblies , which had been publicly and avowedly dissolved for their contumacy , are called together to receive your submission . Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants here , and then went mumping with a sore leg in ...
... assemblies , which had been publicly and avowedly dissolved for their contumacy , are called together to receive your submission . Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants here , and then went mumping with a sore leg in ...
Pagina 31
... assemblies , in which the Americans felt all their portion of importance and beheld their sole image of freedom , were ipso facto annihilated . This ill prospect before them seemed to be boundless in extent and endless in duration . Sir ...
... assemblies , in which the Americans felt all their portion of importance and beheld their sole image of freedom , were ipso facto annihilated . This ill prospect before them seemed to be boundless in extent and endless in duration . Sir ...
Pagina 32
... assemblies to tax themselves , which they had refused . I find that much stress is laid on this as a fact . However , it happens neither to be true nor possible . I will observe , first , that Mr. Grenville never thought fit to make ...
... assemblies to tax themselves , which they had refused . I find that much stress is laid on this as a fact . However , it happens neither to be true nor possible . I will observe , first , that Mr. Grenville never thought fit to make ...
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