Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent & Company, 1919 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina xii
... matter . Burke may surely still be read with profit . Time has not taken from , but rather added to , the value of his writings by dwarfing that which was momentary and adventi- tious in the subject - matter , and displaying the rest in ...
... matter . Burke may surely still be read with profit . Time has not taken from , but rather added to , the value of his writings by dwarfing that which was momentary and adventi- tious in the subject - matter , and displaying the rest in ...
Pagina 2
... matter of importance enough to demand the fullest consideration I could bestow upon it . He has stated to the House two grounds of deliberation ; one narrow and simple , and merely confined to the ques- tion on your paper : the other ...
... matter of importance enough to demand the fullest consideration I could bestow upon it . He has stated to the House two grounds of deliberation ; one narrow and simple , and merely confined to the ques- tion on your paper : the other ...
Pagina 3
... matter largely . I cannot prevail on myself to agree with him in his censure of his own conduct . It is not , he will give me leave to say , either useless or dangerous . He asserts , that retrospect is not wise ; and the proper , the ...
... matter largely . I cannot prevail on myself to agree with him in his censure of his own conduct . It is not , he will give me leave to say , either useless or dangerous . He asserts , that retrospect is not wise ; and the proper , the ...
Pagina 4
... , not on any general reasoning growing out of collateral matter , but on the conduct of the honourable gentleman's ministerial friends on the new revenue itself . The Act of 1767 , which grants this tea duty 4 Burke's Speeches.
... , not on any general reasoning growing out of collateral matter , but on the conduct of the honourable gentleman's ministerial friends on the new revenue itself . The Act of 1767 , which grants this tea duty 4 Burke's Speeches.
Pagina 6
... matter as well as they can together ; for if the repeal of American taxes destroys all our government in America - He is the man ! --and he is the worst of all the repealers , because he is the last . But I hear it rung continually in ...
... matter as well as they can together ; for if the repeal of American taxes destroys all our government in America - He is the man ! --and he is the worst of all the repealers , because he is the last . But I hear it rung continually in ...
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