Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent, 1911 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... situation of advantage , you sometimes venture to tax even your own export . You did so soon after the last war , when , upon this principle , you ventured to impose a duty on coals . In all the articles of American contraband trade who ...
... situation of advantage , you sometimes venture to tax even your own export . You did so soon after the last war , when , upon this principle , you ventured to impose a duty on coals . In all the articles of American contraband trade who ...
Pagina 12
... situation of fighting for a phan- tom ; a quiddity ; a thing that wants , not only a substance , but even a name for a thing , which is neither abstract right nor profitable enjoyment . They tell you , Sir , that your dignity is tied to ...
... situation of fighting for a phan- tom ; a quiddity ; a thing that wants , not only a substance , but even a name for a thing , which is neither abstract right nor profitable enjoyment . They tell you , Sir , that your dignity is tied to ...
Pagina 34
... become connected with a very noble person , and at the head of the Treasury department . It was indeed in a situation of little rank and no consequence , suitable to the mediocrity of my talents and pretensions . 34 Burke's Speeches.
... become connected with a very noble person , and at the head of the Treasury department . It was indeed in a situation of little rank and no consequence , suitable to the mediocrity of my talents and pretensions . 34 Burke's Speeches.
Pagina 35
Edmund Burke. suitable to the mediocrity of my talents and pretensions . But a situation near enough to enable me to see , as well as others , what was going on , and I did see in that noble person such sound principles , such an ...
Edmund Burke. suitable to the mediocrity of my talents and pretensions . But a situation near enough to enable me to see , as well as others , what was going on , and I did see in that noble person such sound principles , such an ...
Pagina 39
... situations in which , perhaps , any man ever stood . In the House of Peers there were very few of the Ministry , out of the noble lord's own particular connection ( except Lord Egmont , who acted , as far as I could discern , an ...
... situations in which , perhaps , any man ever stood . In the House of Peers there were very few of the Ministry , out of the noble lord's own particular connection ( except Lord Egmont , who acted , as far as I could discern , an ...
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