BURKES SPEECH ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA1897 |
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... attempts to show how those already known in regard to the condition of Great Britain , the relations between the mother country and her colonies , Burke's career , his principles and his style , bear upon the subject - matter and the ...
... attempts to show how those already known in regard to the condition of Great Britain , the relations between the mother country and her colonies , Burke's career , his principles and his style , bear upon the subject - matter and the ...
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... attempted to deprive towns of representation in the legislature . The people , on their part , proud of their English blood and their English liberties , pro- tested in town - meetings and legislative assemblies , and often treated the ...
... attempted to deprive towns of representation in the legislature . The people , on their part , proud of their English blood and their English liberties , pro- tested in town - meetings and legislative assemblies , and often treated the ...
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... attempted to control the judiciary by ordering that all Massachusetts judges holding office during his pleasure should be paid by the crown : the colonists , unable to obtain redress through the regular government , organized committees ...
... attempted to control the judiciary by ordering that all Massachusetts judges holding office during his pleasure should be paid by the crown : the colonists , unable to obtain redress through the regular government , organized committees ...
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... attempted to refute Bolingbroke's arguments against revealed religion by showing that they might be urged with equal force against the thing which in his eyes was scarcely less sacred , the social organization by which the rights of the ...
... attempted to refute Bolingbroke's arguments against revealed religion by showing that they might be urged with equal force against the thing which in his eyes was scarcely less sacred , the social organization by which the rights of the ...
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... attempted by a genius only , and even then too ornate for modern taste , were for the time 15 24 , 25 . 217 13 , 14 . 372 2 . 451 27 , 28 . 5 Essay on Lord Bacon . 6 Works , I , 97 . 8 999 7 Ibid . , 140 . 814 . 972 10 , 11 . - and ...
... attempted by a genius only , and even then too ornate for modern taste , were for the time 15 24 , 25 . 217 13 , 14 . 372 2 . 451 27 , 28 . 5 Essay on Lord Bacon . 6 Works , I , 97 . 8 999 7 Ibid . , 140 . 814 . 972 10 , 11 . - and ...
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