Speech on Conciliation with AmericaLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 164 sider |
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Side xvii
... political assemblies . A sovereign power there must have been somewhere . Where could it be but in the Imperial Parliament ? Had not the colonists just acquiesced in an act declaring the power of Par- liament to bind them in all cases ...
... political assemblies . A sovereign power there must have been somewhere . Where could it be but in the Imperial Parliament ? Had not the colonists just acquiesced in an act declaring the power of Par- liament to bind them in all cases ...
Side xix
... Political life in England was exceedingly corrupt ; some of the best statesmen indulged in wholesale bribery as if it were the most innocent thing in the world . The country was really governed by a few great families , some of whose ...
... Political life in England was exceedingly corrupt ; some of the best statesmen indulged in wholesale bribery as if it were the most innocent thing in the world . The country was really governed by a few great families , some of whose ...
Side xx
... political trickery . In the corrupt use of patronage he showed himself able to beat the Old Whigs at their own game , and with the aid of the Tories he might well believe himself capable of reviving for his own benefit the lost power of ...
... political trickery . In the corrupt use of patronage he showed himself able to beat the Old Whigs at their own game , and with the aid of the Tories he might well believe himself capable of reviving for his own benefit the lost power of ...
Side xxii
... political ruin . The Old Whigs needed the rotten boroughs in order to maintain their own control over Parliament and the country . The king needed them because he felt himself able to wrest them from the Old Whigs by intrigue and ...
... political ruin . The Old Whigs needed the rotten boroughs in order to maintain their own control over Parliament and the country . The king needed them because he felt himself able to wrest them from the Old Whigs by intrigue and ...
Side xxiv
... political affairs that not the least diffi- culty was found in passing a measure which , in the reign of George II . , no minister had dared to propose . Formerly such a proposition , if made , would certainly have been rejected ; now ...
... political affairs that not the least diffi- culty was found in passing a measure which , in the reign of George II . , no minister had dared to propose . Formerly such a proposition , if made , would certainly have been rejected ; now ...
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Side lx - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Side 76 - ... 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. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; — they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Side 15 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Side 24 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free, are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Side lvi - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Side 26 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Curdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Side 77 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Side 17 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Side 18 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Side 26 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.