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" I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own... "
Parliamentary speeches from 1761 to 1802 - Page 295
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Lectures and Essays on Natural Theology and Ethics

William Wallace - Ethics - 1898 - 1168 pages
...popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. . . . I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England/ The language of the American declaration of independence is vague and rhetorical ; it reduces the language...
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The Law Quarterly Review, Volume 14

Frederick Pollock - Law - 1898 - 452 pages
...the plantation. The Colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.' Those traits which the most philosophic observer in Europe discovered in our forming nation, are constant...
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Speech of Edmund Burke on Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1899 - 202 pages
...plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of 10 printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's...in a letter on your table. He states that all the peo15 pie in his goverment are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled...
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Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America

Edmund Burke - United States - 1899 - 178 pages
...Plantations. The Colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's...Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out 10 this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that all the people in his...
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The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All ..., Volume 9

Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1900 - 426 pages
...have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearlj' as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as...successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of our capital penal constitutions. The smartness of debate will say that this knowledge ought to teach...
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Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with the American Colonies: Delivered ...

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 464 pages
...plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's...people in his government are lawyers or smatterers Jin Jaw ; and that in Boston they have been enabled by successful chicane wholly to evade many parts...
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Speech of Edmund Burke on Conciliation with the Colonies

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 274 pages
...plantations. 705 The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's...particularly in a letter on your table. He states that all 710 the people in his Government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been...
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Conciliation with the American Colonies

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1900 - 136 pages
...plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's...Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in 20 a letter on your table. He states, that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smattcrers...
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Charles Sumner: His Complete Works, Volume 16

Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 384 pages
...interest. Burke, in one of his masterly orations, portraying the character of our fathers, says : " I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England." * Nothing is clearer than that they knew it well The framers of the National Constitution had it before...
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Speech on Conciliation with America

Edmund Burke - United States - 1901 - 182 pages
...them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Com- 15 mentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this...they have been enabled by successful chicane wholly 20 to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions. The smartness of debate will say...
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