Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent & Company, 1919 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... interest chiefly absorbed his energies — the relations between England and her American colonies , the state of Ireland , the administration of India , and the French Revolution . 66 With the first of these themes alone do the pieces ...
... interest chiefly absorbed his energies — the relations between England and her American colonies , the state of Ireland , the administration of India , and the French Revolution . 66 With the first of these themes alone do the pieces ...
Pagina x
... interest , your equity , and every 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 ...
... interest , your equity , and every 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 ...
Pagina xi
... interest contrary to the grandeur and glory of England , when they are not oppressed by the weight of it . " ' My hold on the colonies , " thus he sums up his plea for conciliation , in words applicable perhaps to more than one modern ...
... interest contrary to the grandeur and glory of England , when they are not oppressed by the weight of it . " ' My hold on the colonies , " thus he sums up his plea for conciliation , in words applicable perhaps to more than one modern ...
Pagina 8
... interests in one connected view . They have taken things by bits and scraps , some at one time and one pretence , and some at another , just as they pressed , without any sort of regard to their relations or dependencies . They never ...
... interests in one connected view . They have taken things by bits and scraps , some at one time and one pretence , and some at another , just as they pressed , without any sort of regard to their relations or dependencies . They never ...
Pagina 11
... interests , merely for the sake of insulting your colonies ? No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could bear an imposition of threepence . But no com- modity will bear threepence , or will bear a penny , when the general ...
... interests , merely for the sake of insulting your colonies ? No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could bear an imposition of threepence . But no com- modity will bear threepence , or will bear a penny , when the general ...
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