Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with AmericaLongmans, Green, 1896 - 164 sider |
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... Majesty in this colony , they not being represented in the Parliament . " In 1680 a notice of the appointment of a collector of the royal customs for New England was torn down at Boston by order of the colonial magistrates . The ...
... Majesty in this colony , they not being represented in the Parliament . " In 1680 a notice of the appointment of a collector of the royal customs for New England was torn down at Boston by order of the colonial magistrates . The ...
Side 49
... shewen unto your most excellent Majesty the inhabi- tants of your Grace's County Palatine of Chester : That where the said County Palatine of Chester is and hath 35 5 10 15 20 25 been alway hitherto exempt , THE EXAMPLE OF CHESTER 49.
... shewen unto your most excellent Majesty the inhabi- tants of your Grace's County Palatine of Chester : That where the said County Palatine of Chester is and hath 35 5 10 15 20 25 been alway hitherto exempt , THE EXAMPLE OF CHESTER 49.
Side 51
... Majesty's English subjects . Are the Americans not as numerous ? If we may trust the learned and accurate app Judge Barrington's account of North Wales , and take that as a standard to measure the rest , there is no com- parison . The ...
... Majesty's English subjects . Are the Americans not as numerous ? If we may trust the learned and accurate app Judge Barrington's account of North Wales , and take that as a standard to measure the rest , there is no com- parison . The ...
Side 57
... Majesty and acts granting to the Crown have regularly for near a century passed the public offices without dispute . Those who have been pleased paradoxically to deny this right , holding that none but the British Parliament can grant ...
... Majesty and acts granting to the Crown have regularly for near a century passed the public offices without dispute . Those who have been pleased paradoxically to deny this right , holding that none but the British Parliament can grant ...
Side 58
... Majesty , being sensible of the zeal and vigour with which his faithful subjects of certain Colonies in North America have exerted themselves in defense of his Majesty's just rights and possessions , recommends it to this House to take ...
... Majesty , being sensible of the zeal and vigour with which his faithful subjects of certain Colonies in North America have exerted themselves in defense of his Majesty's just rights and possessions , recommends it to this House to take ...
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Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America: Edited with Notes and an ... Edmund Burke,Albert Stanburrough Cook Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1906 |
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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 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 33 - 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.
Side 18 - 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 — a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Side 145 - And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
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 - ... but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. Nothing less will content me than whole America. I do not choose to consume its strength along with our own ; because in all parts it is the British strength that I consume. I do not choose to be caught by a foreign enemy at the end of this exhausting conflict, and still less in the midst of it. I may escape, but I can make no insurance against such an event. Let me add, that I do not choose wholly to break the American spirit ; because...
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.