Tea is perhaps the most important object, taking it with its necessary connections, of any in the mighty circle of our commerce.
Edmund Burke: “Tea is perhaps the most important object, taking it with its necessary connections, of any in the mighty circle of our…”
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Burke emphasizes the critical role of tea in the broader context of commerce.
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Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.
Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…
They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.
I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.





