Annual Register, Volume 48Edmund Burke 1808 - History |
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... tion impossible , particularly by the display of talent which they had already made in opposition.- If some of the friends of the pre- sent administration , thinking too highly of their merits , had , from prejudice or partiality , so ...
... tion impossible , particularly by the display of talent which they had already made in opposition.- If some of the friends of the pre- sent administration , thinking too highly of their merits , had , from prejudice or partiality , so ...
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... tion , to act as an armed peasantry and harass and impede the motions of the enemy if he accomplished a landing , or be prepared at least to take their place in the regular army , and repair whatever losses it might sustain in action ...
... tion , to act as an armed peasantry and harass and impede the motions of the enemy if he accomplished a landing , or be prepared at least to take their place in the regular army , and repair whatever losses it might sustain in action ...
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... tion to fill up the blanks in the clause , and a division being called for , there were for the question 206 ; against it 105 ; majority 101. Far from being disheartened by these repeated discomfitures , the opposition resolved on ...
... tion to fill up the blanks in the clause , and a division being called for , there were for the question 206 ; against it 105 ; majority 101. Far from being disheartened by these repeated discomfitures , the opposition resolved on ...
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... tion to the rate , it was expected , that the tax might be rendered more productive by judicious regulation . Great frauds and evasions were now practised , and the mode of exemp- tion furnished the greatest facility to such attempts ...
... tion to the rate , it was expected , that the tax might be rendered more productive by judicious regulation . Great frauds and evasions were now practised , and the mode of exemp- tion furnished the greatest facility to such attempts ...
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... tion of inaudited accounts had given rise in the West Indies , wereso glaring , that , in 1800 , commissioners had been sent thither to investigate them ; in consequence of which malversations Though it be impossible to acquit entirely ...
... tion of inaudited accounts had given rise in the West Indies , wereso glaring , that , in 1800 , commissioners had been sent thither to investigate them ; in consequence of which malversations Though it be impossible to acquit entirely ...
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