The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volum 3F. and C. Rivington, sold also by J. Hatchard, 1801 |
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Side 21
... least like- ness to a pofitive and precipitate engagement . To be a good member of parliament , is , let me tell you , no eafy tafk ; efpecially at this time , when there is fo ftrong a difpofition to run into the pe- rilous extremes of ...
... least like- ness to a pofitive and precipitate engagement . To be a good member of parliament , is , let me tell you , no eafy tafk ; efpecially at this time , when there is fo ftrong a difpofition to run into the pe- rilous extremes of ...
Side 27
... if it did not pro- duce , was at least followed by , an heightening of the diftemper ; until , by a variety of experiments , that that important country has been brought into her prefent fituation CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA . 27.
... if it did not pro- duce , was at least followed by , an heightening of the diftemper ; until , by a variety of experiments , that that important country has been brought into her prefent fituation CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA . 27.
Side 35
... myself in placing the number below two millions of inhabitants of our own European blood and colour ; besides at least 500,000 D 2 -500,000 others , who form no inconfiderable part of the CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA . 35.
... myself in placing the number below two millions of inhabitants of our own European blood and colour ; besides at least 500,000 D 2 -500,000 others , who form no inconfiderable part of the CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA . 35.
Side 49
... least attempt to wreft from them by force , or fhuffle 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 ...
... least attempt to wreft from them by force , or fhuffle 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 ...
Side 52
... least coeval with moft of the governments where it prevails ; that it has generally gone hand in hand with them ; and received great favour and every kind of fupport from authority . The church of England too was formed from her cradle ...
... least coeval with moft of the governments where it prevails ; that it has generally gone hand in hand with them ; and received great favour and every kind of fupport from authority . The church of England too was formed from her cradle ...
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Side 47 - First, sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered, My next objection is its uncertainty.
Side 124 - 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. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly.
Side 112 - The Americans will have no interest contrary to the grandeur and glory of England, when they are not oppressed by the weight of it ; and they will rather be inclined to respect the acts of a superintending legislature, when they see them the acts of that power which is itself the security, not the rival, of their secondary importance. In this assurance my mind most perfectly acquiesces, and I confess...
Side 71 - I cannot proceed with a stern, assured, judicial confidence until I find myself in something more like a judicial character. I must have these hesitations as long as I am compelled to recollect that, in my little reading upon...
Side 75 - 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 49 - England, Sir, is a nation which still I hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Side 31 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion; and ever will be so, as long as the world //'endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last, is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart is an healing and cementing principle.
Side 57 - ... from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up. It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies, and increased with the increase of their wealth; a spirit, that unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England, which, however lawful, is not reconcilable to any ideas of liberty, much less with theirs, has kindled this flame that is ready to consume us.
Side 47 - ... is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence.
Side 49 - ... 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 ; and this from a great variety of powerful causes...