Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq., on Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22, 1775 |
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... mode of exerting the Right of Taxation were not wholly unfounded . That right thus exerted is allowed to have had something reprehenfible in it ; fome- thing unwife , or fomething grievous : fince , in the midst of our heat and ...
... mode of exerting the Right of Taxation were not wholly unfounded . That right thus exerted is allowed to have had something reprehenfible in it ; fome- thing unwife , or fomething grievous : fince , in the midst of our heat and ...
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... mode . of governing Two Millions , we shall find we have Millions more to manage . Your children do not grow fafter from infancy to manhood , than they fpread from families to communities , and from villages to nations . I put this ...
... mode . of governing Two Millions , we shall find we have Millions more to manage . Your children do not grow fafter from infancy to manhood , than they fpread from families to communities , and from villages to nations . I put this ...
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... mode of treat- ing them must have this proportion as its basis ; or it is a reasoning weak , rotten , and sophistical . Mr. Speaker , I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over this great confideration . It is good for us to be here . We ...
... mode of treat- ing them must have this proportion as its basis ; or it is a reasoning weak , rotten , and sophistical . Mr. Speaker , I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over this great confideration . It is good for us to be here . We ...
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... mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are ftill , as it were , but in the griftle , and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood . When I contemplate these things ; C 3 ...
... mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are ftill , as it were , but in the griftle , and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood . When I contemplate these things ; C 3 ...
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... mode of governing them , whether through lenity or indolence , through wisdom or mistake , confirmed them in the imagination , that they , as well as you , had an intereft in these common principles . in They were further confirmed in ...
... mode of governing them , whether through lenity or indolence , through wisdom or mistake , confirmed them in the imagination , that they , as well as you , had an intereft in these common principles . in They were further confirmed in ...
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