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... Bill 289 A Representation to his Majesty , moved in the House of Commons , June 14 , 1784 Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts Appendix to the preceding Speech • • 375 407 498 ( THE WORKS OF EDMUND BURKE . IN NINE VOLUMES.
... Bill 289 A Representation to his Majesty , moved in the House of Commons , June 14 , 1784 Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts Appendix to the preceding Speech • • 375 407 498 ( THE WORKS OF EDMUND BURKE . IN NINE VOLUMES.
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... • 135 151 233 283 • 289 A Representation to his Majesty , moved in the House of Commons , June 14 , 1784 Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts Appendix to the preceding Speech · 375 407 498 SPEECHES AT BRISTOL . VOL . II . 1 1774.
... • 135 151 233 283 • 289 A Representation to his Majesty , moved in the House of Commons , June 14 , 1784 Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts Appendix to the preceding Speech · 375 407 498 SPEECHES AT BRISTOL . VOL . II . 1 1774.
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... debt two millions six hundred thou- sand pounds sterling money ; and was of opinion they would discharge that debt in four years . On this state , those untaxed people were actually subject to the payment of taxes to the amount of six ...
... debt two millions six hundred thou- sand pounds sterling money ; and was of opinion they would discharge that debt in four years . On this state , those untaxed people were actually subject to the payment of taxes to the amount of six ...
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... debt of near one hundred and forty millions in this country ? Is this principle to be true in England , and false every where else ? Is it not true in Ireland ? Has it not hitherto been true in the colo- nies ? Why should you presume ...
... debt of near one hundred and forty millions in this country ? Is this principle to be true in England , and false every where else ? Is it not true in Ireland ? Has it not hitherto been true in the colo- nies ? Why should you presume ...
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... debt , which is due to generous government from protected freedom . And so may I speed in the great object I propose to you , as I think it would not only be an act of injustice , but would be the worst economy in the world , to compel ...
... debt , which is due to generous government from protected freedom . And so may I speed in the great object I propose to you , as I think it would not only be an act of injustice , but would be the worst economy in the world , to compel ...
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Side 58 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Side 6 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits, whilst 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.
Side 13 - Who are you, that should fret and rage and bite the chains of nature? Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire, and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities.
Side 24 - If then the removal of the causes of this spirit of American liberty be, for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable; if the ideas of criminal process be inapplicable, or, if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient, what way yet remains? No way is open, but the third and last — to comply with the American spirit as necessary; or, if you please to submit to it, as a necessary evil.
Side 8 - First, the people of the colonies arc descendants of Englishmen. England, sir, is a nation, which still I hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you, when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Side 10 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound.
Side 25 - ... made from your want of right to keep what you grant? Or does it lessen the grace or dignity of relaxing in the exercise of an odious claim because you have your evidence-room full of titles, and your magazines stuffed with arms to enforce them? What signify all those titles and all those arms? Of what avail are they, when the reason of the thing tells me that the assertion of my title is the loss of my suit, and that I could do nothing but wound myself by the use of my own weapons...
Side 60 - An act for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Side 19 - The temper and character, which prevail in our colonies, are, I am afraid, unalterable by any human art. We cannot, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation, in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates.