Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent & Company, 1919 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina viii
... taxes upon the colonists . Not Franklin or Adams but Grenville and Lord North were for him revolutionary ... tax imposed for purposes of revenue , as distinct from the regulation of trade , is clearly insufficient to explain the altered ...
... taxes upon the colonists . Not Franklin or Adams but Grenville and Lord North were for him revolutionary ... tax imposed for purposes of revenue , as distinct from the regulation of trade , is clearly insufficient to explain the altered ...
Pagina ix
... 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 , " that the love and even the idea of genuine liberty is extremely ...
... 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 , " that the love and even the idea of genuine liberty is extremely ...
Pagina x
... taxes as inherent in the notion of sovereignty , it is dismissed with thinly - veiled contempt . " I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog , though in such respectable company . The question with me is , not whether you have a ...
... taxes as inherent in the notion of sovereignty , it is dismissed with thinly - veiled contempt . " I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog , though in such respectable company . The question with me is , not whether you have a ...
Pagina xi
... Taxation ( April 19 , 1774 ) , the Speech on Conciliation with America ( March 22 , 1775 ) , and the Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol ( 1777 ) , — which compose , he says , the most perfect manual in our literature , or in any ...
... Taxation ( April 19 , 1774 ) , the Speech on Conciliation with America ( March 22 , 1775 ) , and the Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol ( 1777 ) , — which compose , he says , the most perfect manual in our literature , or in any ...
Pagina xiii
... and Character , " 1886 ; W. Willis ( Lecture ) , 1889 ; O. Schaedel , 1898 ; T. D. Pillans , " Edmund Burke Apostle of Justice and Liberty , " 1905 . CONTENTS SPEECHES AMERICAN TAXATION SPEECH AT HIS ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL Introduction xiii.
... and Character , " 1886 ; W. Willis ( Lecture ) , 1889 ; O. Schaedel , 1898 ; T. D. Pillans , " Edmund Burke Apostle of Justice and Liberty , " 1905 . CONTENTS SPEECHES AMERICAN TAXATION SPEECH AT HIS ARRIVAL AT BRISTOL Introduction xiii.
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