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... carrying a Parlia- mentary audience with him . He was too severe to persuade , and too bold to convince , a body to most of whom his philosophy was a stumblingblock and his statesmanship foolishness . In his latter years he commanded so ...
... carrying a Parlia- mentary audience with him . He was too severe to persuade , and too bold to convince , a body to most of whom his philosophy was a stumblingblock and his statesmanship foolishness . In his latter years he commanded so ...
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... carried out , as he probably would had he lived , the idea of parcelling out America into Royal Governments , the foundation would have been laid of a reform which , supposing a little less public spirit than actually existed among the ...
... carried out , as he probably would had he lived , the idea of parcelling out America into Royal Governments , the foundation would have been laid of a reform which , supposing a little less public spirit than actually existed among the ...
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... rights of the nation ; and here , too , is the system by which these rights have always been carried into effect . That system has been 1 1 p . 39 . deranged by an interested and wicked faction , and we XX INTRODUCTION .
... rights of the nation ; and here , too , is the system by which these rights have always been carried into effect . That system has been 1 1 p . 39 . deranged by an interested and wicked faction , and we XX INTRODUCTION .
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... carry back the imagination over a long tract of time , and feed it with the contemplation of remote events : because it is natural to think highly of that which inspires us with high thoughts , which has been connected for many ...
... carry back the imagination over a long tract of time , and feed it with the contemplation of remote events : because it is natural to think highly of that which inspires us with high thoughts , which has been connected for many ...
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... carried on without intermission to the end . Once , in the vigour of his manhood , his constitution sank under his labours . It was with a just indignation that he said in defence of his pension , ' I did not come into Parliament to con ...
... carried on without intermission to the end . Once , in the vigour of his manhood , his constitution sank under his labours . It was with a just indignation that he said in defence of his pension , ' I did not come into Parliament to con ...
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Act of Navigation Administration America arguments assemblies authority Bolingbroke British Burke Burke's Bute Cabal cause character Charles Townshend Civil List Colonies commerce connexion considered constitution controul Court Crown debt dignity duty East India Bill effect election Empire England English faction favour favourite freedom friends gentlemen George Grenville give Government grant Grenville History Honourable Gentleman House of Commons idea influence interest King King's Letter liberty Lord Bute Lord Chatham Lord North Lord Rockingham Lord Shelburne maxim means measures ment mind Ministers Ministry Montesquieu nation nature never Noble Lord object opinion pamphlet Parliament Parliamentary party passage persons political popular preamble Present Discontents principles question reason Reform Regicide reign repeal resolution revenue Rockingham scheme seems sort Speech spirit Stamp Act sure taxation taxes things thought tion trade true virtue Whig Whiggism whilst whole
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Página 173 - Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age at least to be made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough...
Página 168 - I am sensible that a good deal more is still to be done. Indeed, sir, to enable us to determine both on the one and the other of these great questions with a firm and precise judgment, I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us. Because after...
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