Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent & Company, 1919 - 295 pagina's |
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... attended to , tea would have been the last article we should have left taxed for a subject of controversy . Sir , it is not a pleasant consideration , but nothing in the world can read so awful and so instructive a lesson , as the ...
... attended to , tea would have been the last article we should have left taxed for a subject of controversy . Sir , it is not a pleasant consideration , but nothing in the world can read so awful and so instructive a lesson , as the ...
Pagina 23
... Why ? Because men do bear the inevitable constitution of their original nature with all its infirmities . The Act 1 The Molasses Act , 1733 . of Navigation attended the colonies from their infancy , grew American Taxation 23.
... Why ? Because men do bear the inevitable constitution of their original nature with all its infirmities . The Act 1 The Molasses Act , 1733 . of Navigation attended the colonies from their infancy , grew American Taxation 23.
Pagina 24
Edmund Burke. of Navigation attended the colonies from their infancy , grew with their growth , and strengthened with their strength . They were confirmed in obedience to it , even more by usage than by law . They scarcely had remem ...
Edmund Burke. of Navigation attended the colonies from their infancy , grew with their growth , and strengthened with their strength . They were confirmed in obedience to it , even more by usage than by law . They scarcely had remem ...
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... attended with considerable abuses . The contraband will always keep pace in some measure with the fair trade . It should stand as a funda- mental maxim , that no vulgar precaution ought to be employed in the cure of evils which are ...
... attended with considerable abuses . The contraband will always keep pace in some measure with the fair trade . It should stand as a funda- mental maxim , that no vulgar precaution ought to be employed in the cure of evils which are ...
Pagina 52
... attended at the private meeting , in which the resolutions moved by a right honourable gentleman were settled , resolutions leading to the repeal . The next day he voted for that repeal , and he would have spoken for it too if an ...
... attended at the private meeting , in which the resolutions moved by a right honourable gentleman were settled , resolutions leading to the repeal . The next day he voted for that repeal , and he would have spoken for it too if an ...
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