Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent & Company, 1919 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina ix
... Parliament should be compromised by any withdrawal of the obnoxious tax or of the claim which it embodied . As for the mass of the people , their feelings are best expressed in Burke's own language . " It is but too true , " he said ...
... Parliament should be compromised by any withdrawal of the obnoxious tax or of the claim which it embodied . As for the mass of the people , their feelings are best expressed in Burke's own language . " It is but too true , " he said ...
Pagina x
... parliamentary dignity required their maintenance . " I know not how it happens , " said Burke , " but this dignity ... Parliament , was met by the timely reminder that in the past the Repeal of the Stamp Act , which had similarly given ...
... parliamentary dignity required their maintenance . " I know not how it happens , " said Burke , " but this dignity ... Parliament , was met by the timely reminder that in the past the Repeal of the Stamp Act , which had similarly given ...
Pagina 1
... Parliament , on the 19th of April 1774 , Mr. Rose Fuller , member for Rye , made the following motion : That an Act made in the seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty , intituled , " An Act for granting certain duties in the ...
... Parliament , on the 19th of April 1774 , Mr. Rose Fuller , member for Rye , made the following motion : That an Act made in the seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty , intituled , " An Act for granting certain duties in the ...
Pagina 4
... Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in the year 1766 , I affirm , first , that the Americans did not in conse- quence of this measure call upon you to give up the former parliamentary revenue which subsisted in that country , or even any ...
... Parliament repealed the Stamp Act in the year 1766 , I affirm , first , that the Americans did not in conse- quence of this measure call upon you to give up the former parliamentary revenue which subsisted in that country , or even any ...
Pagina 6
... Parliament . The preamble of this law , standing as it now stands , has the lie direct given to it by the provisionary part of the Act , if that can be called provisionary which makes no provision . I should be afraid to express myself ...
... Parliament . The preamble of this law , standing as it now stands , has the lie direct given to it by the provisionary part of the Act , if that can be called provisionary which makes no provision . I should be afraid to express myself ...
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