SPEECH OF EDMUND BURKE, ESQ. ON AMERICAN TAXATION, APRIL 19, 1774
by Burke, Edmund
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About This Item
London, England: J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall, 1783. Fourth edition. Paperback. Very good. Octavo, 8 1/4" x 5" In blue wrappers, front wrapper fully detached and back nearly detached. Some tearing of wrapper along spine. pp. 96. Back upper and lower corners lightly thumbed. Neatly trimmed edges. Clean, copy with sharp print on lightly tanned pages. (ESTC T49649) (Adams, 75-16j). The Irish statemen and philosopher Edmund Burke (1729-1797) delivered this speech on the eve of the American Revolutionary War, as tensions escalated between American colonists and the British government. Burke exhorts the British to cede to the colonists' demands to ease taxation, lest war in the colonies should break out. Burke pleads, "seek peace and ensue it; leave America...do not burthen them with taxes." His warnings went unheeded.
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 79504
- Title
- SPEECH OF EDMUND BURKE, ESQ. ON AMERICAN TAXATION, APRIL 19, 1774
- Author
- Burke, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Fourth edition
- Publisher
- J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1783
- Keywords
- American Revolution, no taxation without representation, American colonies, Pre-Revolutionary literature, The American Controversy
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