Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ.M. Dent & Company, 1919 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina 7
... America ! This is preserving dignity in England ! If you repeal this tax in compliance with the motion , I readily admit that you lose this fair preamble . Estimate your loss in it . The object of the Act is gone already , and all you ...
... America ! This is preserving dignity in England ! If you repeal this tax in compliance with the motion , I readily admit that you lose this fair preamble . Estimate your loss in it . The object of the Act is gone already , and all you ...
Pagina 9
... America would have furnished that vent , which no other part of the world can furnish but America , where tea is next to a necessary of life , and where the demand grows upon the 1 The East India Company at this time had become the pre ...
... America would have furnished that vent , which no other part of the world can furnish but America , where tea is next to a necessary of life , and where the demand grows upon the 1 The East India Company at this time had become the pre ...
Pagina 10
... America is taken off , the place of collection is only shifted , instead of the retention of a shilling from the drawback here it is threepence custom in America . " All this , Sir , is very true . But this is the very folly and mis ...
... America is taken off , the place of collection is only shifted , instead of the retention of a shilling from the drawback here it is threepence custom in America . " All this , Sir , is very true . But this is the very folly and mis ...
Pagina 11
... America than to see you go out of the plain highroad of finance , and give up your most certain revenues and your clearest interests , merely for the sake of insulting your colonies ? No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could ...
... America than to see you go out of the plain highroad of finance , and give up your most certain revenues and your clearest interests , merely for the sake of insulting your colonies ? No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could ...
Pagina 12
Edmund Burke. expedient to raise a revenue in America ; your Act of 1769 , which takes away that revenue , contradicts ... America is in open resistance to your authority and that you have just revived your system of taxation ? He thinks ...
Edmund Burke. expedient to raise a revenue in America ; your Act of 1769 , which takes away that revenue , contradicts ... America is in open resistance to your authority and that you have just revived your system of taxation ? He thinks ...
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