Speeches on the American War: And Letter to the Sheriffs of BristolHeath, 1891 - 242 страници |
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... kind of system , right or wrong ; but only invented occasionally some miserable tale for the day , in order meanly to sneak out of difficulties , into which they had proudly strutted . And they were put to all 25 these shifts and ...
... kind of system , right or wrong ; but only invented occasionally some miserable tale for the day , in order meanly to sneak out of difficulties , into which they had proudly strutted . And they were put to all 25 these shifts and ...
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... kind were held out to them ; and in par- ticular , I well remember , that Mr. Townshend , in a brilliant 15 harangue on this subject , did dazzle them , by playing before their eyes the image of a revenue to be raised in America . Here ...
... kind were held out to them ; and in par- ticular , I well remember , that Mr. Townshend , in a brilliant 15 harangue on this subject , did dazzle them , by playing before their eyes the image of a revenue to be raised in America . Here ...
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... kind ; that we were to go on , from day to day , in charging them with such taxes as we pleased , for such a military force as we should think proper . Had this plan been pursued , it was evident that the provin- cial assemblies , in ...
... kind ; that we were to go on , from day to day , in charging them with such taxes as we pleased , for such a military force as we should think proper . Had this plan been pursued , it was evident that the provin- cial assemblies , in ...
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... kind were contrary to the fundamental principles of commerce on 20 which the colonies were founded ; and contrary to every idea of political equity ; by which equity we are bound , as much as possible , to extend the spirit and benefit ...
... kind were contrary to the fundamental principles of commerce on 20 which the colonies were founded ; and contrary to every idea of political equity ; by which equity we are bound , as much as possible , to extend the spirit and benefit ...
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... kind should be done . Here , this extraordinary man , then chancellor of the ex- 10 chequer , found himself in great straits . To please univer- sally was the object of his life ; but to tax and to please , no more than to love and to ...
... kind should be done . Here , this extraordinary man , then chancellor of the ex- 10 chequer , found himself in great straits . To please univer- sally was the object of his life ; but to tax and to please , no more than to love and to ...
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Страница 123 - 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.
Страница 100 - 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.
Страница 145 - 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.
Страница 100 - 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.
Страница 160 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. 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.
Страница 83 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol,...
Страница 160 - 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.
Страница 103 - ... and untractable, 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...
Страница 99 - 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.
Страница 114 - ... that adhered to them. Such would, and, in no long time, must be, the effect of attempting to forbid as a crime, and to suppress as an evil, the command and blessing of Providence,