Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, (March 22, 1775).Leach, Shewell & Sanborn, 1895 |
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... 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 . " 1 - There is no doubt that Burke was by ...
... 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 . " 1 - There is no doubt that Burke was by ...
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... things stood at the beginning of the session . About that time a worthy member of 25 great Parliamentary 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 member of 25 great Parliamentary experience , who , in the year 1766 , filled the chair of the American Committee with much ability , took me aside ; and ...
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... things were hastening towards an incur- able alienation of our Colonies , I confess my caution gave way . I felt this as one of those few moments in which decorum yields to a higher duty . Public calamity is a mighty leveler ; and there ...
... things were hastening towards an incur- able alienation of our Colonies , I confess my caution gave way . I felt this as one of those few moments in which decorum yields to a higher duty . Public calamity is a mighty leveler ; and there ...
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... things I make no difficulty in affirming that the pro- 20 posal ought to originate from us . Great and acknowl- edged force is not impaired , either in effect or in opinion , by an unwillingness to exert itself . The superior power may ...
... things I make no difficulty in affirming that the pro- 20 posal ought to originate from us . Great and acknowl- edged force is not impaired , either in effect or in opinion , by an unwillingness to exert itself . The superior power may ...
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... thing that we have to consider with regard to the nature of the object is the number of people in the Colonies . I have taken for some years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calculation justify 25 myself in placing the ...
... thing that we have to consider with regard to the nature of the object is the number of people in the Colonies . I have taken for some years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calculation justify 25 myself in placing the ...
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Страница 17 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's 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.
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Страница 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.
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Страница 18 - ... 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. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and salutary .neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her...
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Страница 17 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? 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.