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" ... Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of... "
The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 183
by Edmund Burke - 1852
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable...nothing else, that we are at issue. It is a principle of politics. expediency. Your act of 1767 asserts, that it is expedient to raise a revenue in America...
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The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 5

1775 - 868 pages
...made him a (lave. It is the weight qf that preamble, of which you are fofond, and not the weight of duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling...bear. It is then, Sir, upon the principle of this roeafure, arid nothing elfe, that we are at ilFue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 604 pages
...would have made him a flave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are fo fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable...bear. It is then, Sir, upon the principle of this meafure, and nothing elfe, that we are at iffue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your act...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].

Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...would have made him a flave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are fo fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable...bear. It is then, Sir, upon the principle of this meafure, and nothing elfe, that we are at iffue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your act...
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The History, Debates, and Proceedings of Both Houses of Parliament ..., Volume 7

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1792 - 608 pages
...would have made him a flave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are fo fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable...bear. It is then, Sir, upon the principle of this meafure, and nothing elfe, that we are at iflue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your Aft...
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The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Selected from the Writings ...

Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...would have made him a flave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are fo fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear. Ibid. AMERICA (HOUSE OF COMMONS.) IT was in America that your refolutions were pre-declared. It was...
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The Works of ... Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 462 pages
...would have made him a flave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are fo fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable...bear. It is then, Sir, upon the principle of this meafure, and nothing elfe, that we are at iflue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your act...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1806 - 522 pages
...would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable...expedient to raise a revenue in America ; your act of 1769, which takes away that revenue, contradicts the act of 1767 ; and, by something much stronger...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...would have made him. a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable...expedient to raise a revenue in America; your act of 1769, which takes away that revenue, contradicts th.e act of 1767 ; and, by something much stronger...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable...expedient to raise a revenue in America ;your act of 1769, which takes away that revenue, contradicts the act of 1767 ; and, by something much stronger...
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