Two Speeches on Conciliation with America: And Two Letters on Irish Questions |
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... not yet conquered . The honourable gentleman has made one endeavour more to diversify the form of this dis- gusting argument . He has thrown out a speech 201 composed almost entirely of challenges . Challenges are serious things * ...
... not yet conquered . The honourable gentleman has made one endeavour more to diversify the form of this dis- gusting argument . He has thrown out a speech 201 composed almost entirely of challenges . Challenges are serious things * ...
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... things ; and as he is a man of prudence as well as resolution , I daresay he has very well weighed those challenges before he delivered them . I had long the happiness to sit at the same side of the House , and to agree with the ...
... things ; and as he is a man of prudence as well as resolution , I daresay he has very well weighed those challenges before he delivered them . I had long the happiness to sit at the same side of the House , and to agree with the ...
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... things ? Five - sixths repealed - abandoned — sunk -gone - lost for ever . Does the poor solitary tea duty support the purposes of this preamble ? Is not the supply there stated as effectually abandoned as if the tea duty had perished ...
... things ? Five - sixths repealed - abandoned — sunk -gone - lost for ever . Does the poor solitary tea duty support the purposes of this preamble ? Is not the supply there stated as effectually abandoned as if the tea duty had perished ...
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... things taxed were so trivial , that the loss of the objects themselves , and their utter annihilation out of American commerce , would have been compara- tively as nothing . But is the article of tea such an object in the trade of ...
... things taxed were so trivial , that the loss of the objects themselves , and their utter annihilation out of American commerce , would have been compara- tively as nothing . But is the article of tea such an object in the trade of ...
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... things are involved in the comprehensive energy of that significant appellation . I am not called upon to enlarge to you on that danger , which you thought proper yourselves to aggravate , and to display to the world with all the parade ...
... things are involved in the comprehensive energy of that significant appellation . I am not called upon to enlarge to you on that danger , which you thought proper yourselves to aggravate , and to display to the world with all the parade ...
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