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... liberty , they could not pay . Hence all your specific and detailed enumerations : hence the innumerable checks and counter - checks : hence that infinite variety of paper chains by which you bind together this complicated 38 BURKE'S ...
... liberty , they could not pay . Hence all your specific and detailed enumerations : hence the innumerable checks and counter - checks : hence that infinite variety of paper chains by which you bind together this complicated 38 BURKE'S ...
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... liberty , taken together , is certainly not perfect freedom ; but comparing it with the ordinary circumstances of human nature , it was a happy and a liberal condition . I know , Sir , that great and not unsuccessful pains have been ...
... liberty , taken together , is certainly not perfect freedom ; but comparing it with the ordinary circumstances of human nature , it was a happy and a liberal condition . I know , Sir , that great and not unsuccessful pains have been ...
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... liberty ; for but too many are apt to believe regulation to be commerce , and taxes to be revenue . Among regulations , that which stood first in reputation was his idol . I mean the Act of Navigation . He has often professed it to be ...
... liberty ; for but too many are apt to believe regulation to be commerce , and taxes to be revenue . Among regulations , that which stood first in reputation was his idol . I mean the Act of Navigation . He has often professed it to be ...
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... liberty the Americans have , and what one brand of slavery they are free from , if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce , and at the same time are made pack - horses of every ...
... liberty the Americans have , and what one brand of slavery they are free from , if they are bound in their property and industry by all the restraints you can imagine on commerce , and at the same time are made pack - horses of every ...
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... liberty , are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our Constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength ? our opprobrium for their glory ? and the slough of slavery , which we are not able to work off , to serve ...
... liberty , are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our Constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength ? our opprobrium for their glory ? and the slough of slavery , which we are not able to work off , to serve ...
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