Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America: Edited with Notes and an IntroductionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1896 - 164 sider |
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... proper manner in which colo- nies might become sources of revenue to the mother country , not by means of taxes and tax - gatherers , but by the inter- change of their appropriate products , and by the exertions of the real revenue ...
... proper manner in which colo- nies might become sources of revenue to the mother country , not by means of taxes and tax - gatherers , but by the inter- change of their appropriate products , and by the exertions of the real revenue ...
Side xxx
... proper business of a statesman is to contrive the means by which certain ends may be effected , leaving it to the general voice of the country to determine what those ends shall be , and shaping his own conduct , not according to his ...
... proper business of a statesman is to contrive the means by which certain ends may be effected , leaving it to the general voice of the country to determine what those ends shall be , and shaping his own conduct , not according to his ...
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... proper robe of equity , self - control , and reasonableness . Not one , but all those great idols of the political market- place whose worship and service has cost the race so dear , are discovered and shown to be the foolish uncouth ...
... proper robe of equity , self - control , and reasonableness . Not one , but all those great idols of the political market- place whose worship and service has cost the race so dear , are discovered and shown to be the foolish uncouth ...
Side xxxix
... proper order . ” Apart from his incessant assertion of the principle that man acts from adequate motives relative to his interests , and not on metaphysical speculations , Burke sows , as he marches along in his stately argument , many ...
... proper order . ” Apart from his incessant assertion of the principle that man acts from adequate motives relative to his interests , and not on metaphysical speculations , Burke sows , as he marches along in his stately argument , many ...
Side xlv
... proper to remark that a large part of it is not liable to any censure of this kind ; many of his figures are so finely wrought into the texture of his style , that we hardly think of them as figures at all . His great fault in other ...
... proper to remark that a large part of it is not liable to any censure of this kind ; many of his figures are so finely wrought into the texture of his style , that we hardly think of them as figures at all . His great fault in other ...
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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.