Speech on Conciliation with AmericaGinn, 1897 - 152 sider |
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... Justice Hutchinson . At this juncture Lord Rockingham , leader of that faction of the Old Whigs with which Burke usually acted , became Prime Minister , and proposed the repeal of the Stamp Act on the ground of policy . During the hot ...
... Justice Hutchinson . At this juncture Lord Rockingham , leader of that faction of the Old Whigs with which Burke usually acted , became Prime Minister , and proposed the repeal of the Stamp Act on the ground of policy . During the hot ...
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... of his " poor coun- try " ; and later he tried to secure justice for it , though at the 1 Works , IV , 377 . 2 Morley's Burke , 160 . expense of offending his Bristol constituents . Then , when xxxviii INTRODUCTION .
... of his " poor coun- try " ; and later he tried to secure justice for it , though at the 1 Works , IV , 377 . 2 Morley's Burke , 160 . expense of offending his Bristol constituents . Then , when xxxviii INTRODUCTION .
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... justice . Where duller men would have been stolidly indifferent , his powerful imagination enabled him to feel keenly the burdens of the oppressed . Thus it was for justice to the clergy and the nobility of France , to the disfran ...
... justice . Where duller men would have been stolidly indifferent , his powerful imagination enabled him to feel keenly the burdens of the oppressed . Thus it was for justice to the clergy and the nobility of France , to the disfran ...
Side xliii
... justice as an individual was far less generally accepted than now . Every European power regarded the acquisition of territory as ample excuse for unprovoked rapine and slaughter , as is proved by the very crimes of Hastings which Burke ...
... justice as an individual was far less generally accepted than now . Every European power regarded the acquisition of territory as ample excuse for unprovoked rapine and slaughter , as is proved by the very crimes of Hastings which Burke ...
Side xliv
... justice and generosity , but comparatively few have added to their zeal the saving knowledge that perfect justice can never be attained in this world ; that human institutions are at best " compromises , sometimes between good and evil ...
... justice and generosity , but comparatively few have added to their zeal the saving knowledge that perfect justice can never be attained in this world ; that human institutions are at best " compromises , sometimes between good and evil ...
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Side 71 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
Side liii - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Side 17 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Side 87 - AND after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, 2 And was transfigured before them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light 3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Side 73 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Side 72 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly.
Side 107 - That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council...
Side 16 - Straits — while we are looking for them beneath the Arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of Polar cold — that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.* Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Side 19 - ... and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Side 33 - ... agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.