On the record
The public income from these licenses has risen with very great regularity through a series of years which all must admit to have been years of prosperity.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgThe public income from these licenses has risen with very great regularity through a series of years which all must admit to have been years of prosperity.
Burke notes the consistent rise in public income from licenses, indicating economic prosperity.
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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.
I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
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