Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent, 1911 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina ix
... idea of secession was widely entertained . On neither side of the Atlantic was it foreseen to what end affairs were drifting . In America , even after the rebellion had actually begun , there is ample evidence that accommo- dation with ...
... idea of secession was widely entertained . On neither side of the Atlantic was it foreseen to what end affairs were drifting . In America , even after the rebellion had actually begun , there is ample evidence that accommo- dation with ...
Pagina x
... idea of your policy . Show the thing you contend for to be reason ; show it to be common sense ; show it to be the means of attain- ing some useful end , and then I am content to allow it what dignity you please . But what dignity is ...
... idea of your policy . Show the thing you contend for to be reason ; show it to be common sense ; show it to be the means of attain- ing some useful end , and then I am content to allow it what dignity you please . But what dignity is ...
Pagina xi
... idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you , and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance . But let it be once understood that your government may be ...
... idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you , and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance . But let it be once understood that your government may be ...
Pagina 7
... ideas the repeal is grounded . Repeal this tax too upon commercial principles if you please . These principles will serve as well now as they did formerly . But you know that , either your objection to a repeal from these supposed ...
... ideas the repeal is grounded . Repeal this tax too upon commercial principles if you please . These principles will serve as well now as they did formerly . But you know that , either your objection to a repeal from these supposed ...
Pagina 8
... ideas in the management of great affairs . Never have the servants of the state looked at the whole of your complicated interests in one connected view . They have taken things by bits and scraps , some at one time and one pretence ...
... ideas in the management of great affairs . Never have the servants of the state looked at the whole of your complicated interests in one connected view . They have taken things by bits and scraps , some at one time and one pretence ...
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