Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent & Company, 1919 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina xii
... order , and esteem in the governed , " that " if you mean to please any people you must give them the boon they ask ; not what you think better for them but of a kind totally " " " different , " and above all ( a xii Introduction.
... order , and esteem in the governed , " that " if you mean to please any people you must give them the boon they ask ; not what you think better for them but of a kind totally " " " different , " and above all ( a xii Introduction.
Pagina 3
... give me leave to say , either useless or dangerous . He asserts , that retrospect is not wise ; and the proper , the only proper , subject of inquiry , is " not how we got into this difficulty , but how we are to get out of it . " In ...
... give me leave to say , either useless or dangerous . He asserts , that retrospect is not wise ; and the proper , the only proper , subject of inquiry , is " not how we got into this difficulty , but how we are to get out of it . " In ...
Pagina 4
... give no security on this subject . But I will do all that I can , and all that can be fairly demanded . To the experience which the honourable gentleman reprobates in one instant and reverts to in the next - to that experience , without ...
... give no security on this subject . But I will do all that I can , and all that can be fairly demanded . To the experience which the honourable gentleman reprobates in one instant and reverts to in the next - to that experience , without ...
Pagina 5
... give so much alarm to his honourable friend . His work was not bad in its principle , but imperfect in its execution ; and the motion on your paper presses him only 1 Lord North , then Chancellor of the Exchequer . to complete a proper ...
... give so much alarm to his honourable friend . His work was not bad in its principle , but imperfect in its execution ; and the motion on your paper presses him only 1 Lord North , then Chancellor of the Exchequer . to complete a proper ...
Pagina 6
... give me this firmness ; but plain truth and clear evidence can be beat down by no ability . The clerk will be so good as to turn to the Act , and to read this favourite preamble : - 66 Whereas it is expedient that a revenue should be ...
... give me this firmness ; but plain truth and clear evidence can be beat down by no ability . The clerk will be so good as to turn to the Act , and to read this favourite preamble : - 66 Whereas it is expedient that a revenue should be ...
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