The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volum 2Little, Brown, 1869 |
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Side 30
... liberty , they could not pay . Hence all your specific and de- tailed enumerations ; hence the innumerable checks and counterchecks ; hence that infinite variety of paper chains by which you bind together this complicated system of 30 ...
... liberty , they could not pay . Hence all your specific and de- tailed enumerations ; hence the innumerable checks and counterchecks ; hence that infinite variety of paper chains by which you bind together this complicated system of 30 ...
Side 34
... liberty , taken together , is certainly not perfect freedom ; but comparing it with the ordinary circum- stances of human nature , it was an happy and a lib- eral condition . I know , Sir , that great and not unsuccessful pains have ...
... liberty , taken together , is certainly not perfect freedom ; but comparing it with the ordinary circum- stances of human nature , it was an happy and a lib- eral condition . I know , Sir , that great and not unsuccessful pains have ...
Side 38
... liberty ; for but too many are apt to believe regulation to be commerce , and taxes to be revenue . Among regula- tions , that which stood first in reputation was his idol : I mean the Act of Navigation . He has often professed it to be ...
... liberty ; for but too many are apt to believe regulation to be commerce , and taxes to be revenue . Among regula- tions , that which stood first in reputation was his idol : I mean the Act of Navigation . He has often professed it to be ...
Side 73
... liberty the Amer- icans have , and what one brand of slavery they are free from , if they are bound in their property and in- dustry by all the restraints you can imagine on com- merce , and at the same time are made pack - horses of ...
... liberty the Amer- icans have , and what one brand of slavery they are free from , if they are bound in their property and in- dustry by all the restraints you can imagine on com- merce , and at the same time are made pack - horses of ...
Side 74
... liberty , are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength , our opprobrium for their glory , and the slough of slavery , which we are not able to work off , to serve ...
... liberty , are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength , our opprobrium for their glory , and the slough of slavery , which we are not able to work off , to serve ...
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Side 179 - England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have ; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience. 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.
Side 105 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...
Side 124 - The fact is so : and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
Side 164 - America, and for more effectually preventing the clandestine running of goods in the said colonies and plantations ; and that it may be proper to repeal an act, made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled, An act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town and within the harbor of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America...
Side 181 - 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 180 - Do not entertain so weak an imagination as that your registers and your bonds, your affidavits and your sufferances, your cockets and your clearances, are what form the great securities of your commerce. Do not dream that your letters of office, and your instructions, and your suspending clauses, are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole.
Side 180 - ... you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have ; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience. Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they mat 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 117 - 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. 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...
Side 169 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences ; we give and take ; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others; and, we chuse rather to be happy citizens, than subtle disputants.
Side 95 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.