Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America: Edited with Notes and an IntroductionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1896 - 164 sider |
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... Bill in 1832 , but the agitation for reform was begun by William Pitt in 1745 , and his famous son came very near winning the victory on that question in 1782 . Now this question of parliamentary reform was intimately related to the ...
... Bill in 1832 , but the agitation for reform was begun by William Pitt in 1745 , and his famous son came very near winning the victory on that question in 1782 . Now this question of parliamentary reform was intimately related to the ...
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... bill was brought into Parliament to tax the Americans ; and so complete had been the change in 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 ...
... bill was brought into Parliament to tax the Americans ; and so complete had been the change in 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 ...
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... bills by which several useless places were en- tirely abolished , and in the single office of paymaster - general effected a saving to the country of 25,000l . a year . These things alone are sufficient to explain the animosity of a ...
... bills by which several useless places were en- tirely abolished , and in the single office of paymaster - general effected a saving to the country of 25,000l . a year . These things alone are sufficient to explain the animosity of a ...
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... Bill , and that shameful bill to forbid all intercourse with America , which was not inaptly called the starvation plan ; violent measures , by which the king hoped to curb the colonies , and break the spirit of those noble men whom he ...
... Bill , and that shameful bill to forbid all intercourse with America , which was not inaptly called the starvation plan ; violent measures , by which the king hoped to curb the colonies , and break the spirit of those noble men whom he ...
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... the same truckle - bed , " and Mr. Dundas with his East India bills , " ex- posed like the imperial sow of augury , lying in the mud with 99 " " the prodigies of her fertility about her , as evidences INTRODUCTION xlv.
... the same truckle - bed , " and Mr. Dundas with his East India bills , " ex- posed like the imperial sow of augury , lying in the mud with 99 " " the prodigies of her fertility about her , as evidences INTRODUCTION xlv.
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Side 40 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to do.
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 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 137 - ... bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations 'airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the...
Side lx - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot, too cool; for a drudge, disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
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 20 - Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole: and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your Colonies become suspicious, restive, 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 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 76 - 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. 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 146 - Whereas it is expedient that a revenue should be raised in your majesty's dominions in America, for making a more certain and adequate provision for defraying the charge of the administration of justice, and support of civil government, in such provinces where it shall be found necessary ; and towards further defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the said dominions.