The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1906 - Great Britain |
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Page xv
... revenue to come to the Crown from the Colonies in America . But , for the first time , this Act introduced the words " give and grant , " which are words of supply , words of gift from the Commons and from nobody else . This Act was an ...
... revenue to come to the Crown from the Colonies in America . But , for the first time , this Act introduced the words " give and grant , " which are words of supply , words of gift from the Commons and from nobody else . This Act was an ...
Page xvii
... revenue too ? The English- man in America will feel that this is slavery - that it is legal slavery will be no compensation either to his feelings or his understanding . " This passage is selected to show the wisdom , good sense ...
... revenue too ? The English- man in America will feel that this is slavery - that it is legal slavery will be no compensation either to his feelings or his understanding . " This passage is selected to show the wisdom , good sense ...
Page 33
... revenues . They lost all concern for their common honour or safety , and could bear no advice that tended to reform them . At this time truth became offensive to those lords the people , and most highly dangerous to the speaker . The ...
... revenues . They lost all concern for their common honour or safety , and could bear no advice that tended to reform them . At this time truth became offensive to those lords the people , and most highly dangerous to the speaker . The ...
Page 39
... revenues are committed in defiance of justice ; and abuses grow , by time and impunity , into customs ; until they prescribe against the laws , and grow too inveterate often to admit a cure , unless such as may be as bad as the disease ...
... revenues are committed in defiance of justice ; and abuses grow , by time and impunity , into customs ; until they prescribe against the laws , and grow too inveterate often to admit a cure , unless such as may be as bad as the disease ...
Page 223
... revenue was improved , and settled upon a rational foundation — its commerce extended with foreign countries ; while all the advan- tages were secured to Great Britain by the Act for repealing certain duties , and encouraging ...
... revenue was improved , and settled upon a rational foundation — its commerce extended with foreign countries ; while all the advan- tages were secured to Great Britain by the Act for repealing certain duties , and encouraging ...
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