Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775D.C. Heath & Company, 1900 |
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Side vi
... things rashly sought are rarely found ; That , for the functions of an ancient State - Strong by her charters , free because imbound , Servant of Providence , not slave of Fate - Perilous is sweeping change , all chance unsound . ” vi ...
... things rashly sought are rarely found ; That , for the functions of an ancient State - Strong by her charters , free because imbound , Servant of Providence , not slave of Fate - Perilous is sweeping change , all chance unsound . ” vi ...
Side x
... things and battles long ago , " until English poetry rose clear and full- orbed in Northumbria with Cadmon , the cowherd . It then passed through a serene and cloudless sky with Chaucer and Spenser , and reached high noon with the ...
... things and battles long ago , " until English poetry rose clear and full- orbed in Northumbria with Cadmon , the cowherd . It then passed through a serene and cloudless sky with Chaucer and Spenser , and reached high noon with the ...
Side xiii
... things in Nature and human life . It is through great men that God's revelations reach us . Carlyle has said that the history of the world is the biography of great men , and that admiration for a great personality is the most vivifying ...
... things in Nature and human life . It is through great men that God's revelations reach us . Carlyle has said that the history of the world is the biography of great men , and that admiration for a great personality is the most vivifying ...
Side 2
... thing of this sort seemed to be indispensable ; in order , amidst so vast a fluctuation of passions and opinions , to con- centre my thoughts ; to ballast my conduct ; to preserve me from being blown about by every wind of fashionable ...
... thing of this sort seemed to be indispensable ; in order , amidst so vast a fluctuation of passions and opinions , to con- centre my thoughts ; to ballast my conduct ; to preserve me from being blown about by every wind of fashionable ...
Side 3
... things stood at the beginning of the session . About that time , a worthy member1 of great parlia- 20 mentary experience , who , in the year 1766 , filled the chair of the American committee with much ability , took me aside ; and ...
... things stood at the beginning of the session . About that time , a worthy member1 of great parlia- 20 mentary experience , who , in the year 1766 , filled the chair of the American committee with much ability , took me aside ; and ...
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Side ix - For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Side 76 - 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 39 - 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 16 - 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 61 - 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 for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Side 16 - Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.
Side 76 - 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 15 - 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 xvii - She has a world of ready wealth, Our minds and hearts to bless — Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health, Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
Side 38 - These are deep questions, where great names militate against each other ; where reason is perplexed ; and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides ; and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point " is the great Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk.