The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2H. G. Bohn, 1864 - Great Britain |
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... charged with being an American . If warm affection towards those over whom I claim any share of authority be a crime , I am guilty of this charge . But I do assure you , ( and they who know me publicly and privately will bear witness to ...
... charged with being an American . If warm affection towards those over whom I claim any share of authority be a crime , I am guilty of this charge . But I do assure you , ( and they who know me publicly and privately will bear witness to ...
Page 46
... charge . This dispo- sition of things being the law of God , neither you nor I can alter it . So that if you will have more help from Ireland , you must previously supply her with more means . I believe it will be found , that if men ...
... charge . This dispo- sition of things being the law of God , neither you nor I can alter it . So that if you will have more help from Ireland , you must previously supply her with more means . I believe it will be found , that if men ...
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... charge -I believe you have not very carefully looked at the public accounts . Ireland , Sir , pays a great deal more than Scotland ; and is perhaps as much and as effectually united to England as Scotland is . But if Scotland , instead ...
... charge -I believe you have not very carefully looked at the public accounts . Ireland , Sir , pays a great deal more than Scotland ; and is perhaps as much and as effectually united to England as Scotland is . But if Scotland , instead ...
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... charged at all . If it were otherwise , you could trade very little . You know , that the price of all sorts of manufacture is not a great deal enhanced ( except to the domestic consumer ) by any taxes paid in this country . This I ...
... charged at all . If it were otherwise , you could trade very little . You know , that the price of all sorts of manufacture is not a great deal enhanced ( except to the domestic consumer ) by any taxes paid in this country . This I ...
Page 52
... charge . The military force which shall be kept up in order to cramp the natural faculties of a people , and to prevent their arrival to their utmost prosperity , is the instrument of their servitude , not the means of their protection ...
... charge . The military force which shall be kept up in order to cramp the natural faculties of a people , and to prevent their arrival to their utmost prosperity , is the instrument of their servitude , not the means of their protection ...
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