The Works of ... Edmund Burke, Volum 2F. & C. Rivington, 1803 |
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... last troops fhe fent into the field were always found to be the beft , and her frequent loffes only ferved to fill her regiments " with better foldiers . The conqueft of Hanover " became therefore every campaign more probable . " It is ...
... last troops fhe fent into the field were always found to be the beft , and her frequent loffes only ferved to fill her regiments " with better foldiers . The conqueft of Hanover " became therefore every campaign more probable . " It is ...
Side 35
... last year he has given us of the peace it amounted to no more than 494,772 ; that is , in the last year of the war it was 32,785 tons more than in the correspondent year of his peace average . No year of the peace ex- ceeded it except ...
... last year he has given us of the peace it amounted to no more than 494,772 ; that is , in the last year of the war it was 32,785 tons more than in the correspondent year of his peace average . No year of the peace ex- ceeded it except ...
Side 40
... last him for two pages together . When the advantages of the war were to be depreciated , then the lofs of the ultramarine colonies lightened . the expences of France , facilitated her remittances , and therefore her colonists put them ...
... last him for two pages together . When the advantages of the war were to be depreciated , then the lofs of the ultramarine colonies lightened . the expences of France , facilitated her remittances , and therefore her colonists put them ...
Side 69
... last years fince the author's date of our ruin . In the laft three years the whole of our exports was between 44 and 45 millions . In the three years preceding the war , it was no more than from 35 to 36 millions . The average balance ...
... last years fince the author's date of our ruin . In the laft three years the whole of our exports was between 44 and 45 millions . In the three years preceding the war , it was no more than from 35 to 36 millions . The average balance ...
Side 88
... prefent , I am not informed . Even this will appear no trivial impofition . In London , falt may be had at a penny farthing per pound from the last retailer . We 4 We indeed tax our beer : but the impofition 83 OESERVATIONS ON A LATE.
... prefent , I am not informed . Even this will appear no trivial impofition . In London , falt may be had at a penny farthing per pound from the last retailer . We 4 We indeed tax our beer : but the impofition 83 OESERVATIONS ON A LATE.
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Side 333 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon some particular principle, in which they are all agreed.
Side 286 - ... of the people, as this would indicate some consanguinity, some sympathy of nature with their constituents, than that they should in all cases be wholly untouched by the opinions and feelings of the people out of doors.
Side 418 - ... patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Side 388 - But it may be truly said, that men too much conversant in office are rarely minds of remarkable enlargement. Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business not to be much more important than the forms in which it is conducted.
Side 433 - I look, I say, on the imperial rights of Great Britain, and the privileges which the colonists ought to enjoy under these rights, to be just the most reconcilable things in the world.
Side 422 - But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame ; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Side 433 - Reflect how you are to govern a people, who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue ; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience...
Side 397 - ... and at the head of the treasury department. It was indeed in a situation of little rank and no consequence, suitable to the mediocrity of my talents and pretensions. But a situation near enough to enable me to see, as well as others, what was going on ; and I did see in...
Side 334 - Therefore every honourable connexion will avow It is their first purpose, to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution, with all the power and authority of the state.
Side 363 - Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear.