Speech on Conciliation with AmericaGinn, 1897 - 152 страници |
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... spirit . In accordance with his own views and those of the king , he brought in a bill to lay duties on wine , oil and fruits carried directly to America from Spain and Portugal , and on glass , paper , lead , painters ' colors and tea ...
... spirit . In accordance with his own views and those of the king , he brought in a bill to lay duties on wine , oil and fruits carried directly to America from Spain and Portugal , and on glass , paper , lead , painters ' colors and tea ...
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... spirit of American liberty " ; " If we adopt this mode . " 5 Another of Burke's methods was to construct the paragraph so as to throw as much emphasis as possible upon the main idea in it . By a word or phrase at the beginning he would ...
... spirit of American liberty " ; " If we adopt this mode . " 5 Another of Burke's methods was to construct the paragraph so as to throw as much emphasis as possible upon the main idea in it . By a word or phrase at the beginning he would ...
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... spirit of liberty is stronger among them than among any other people on earth ( 19 10-25 12 ) IV . Coercion ( 26 24-28 12 ) ( 25 24-26 23 ) ; for V. Of the three possible methods of dealing with America , the last is the only one ...
... spirit of liberty is stronger among them than among any other people on earth ( 19 10-25 12 ) IV . Coercion ( 26 24-28 12 ) ( 25 24-26 23 ) ; for V. Of the three possible methods of dealing with America , the last is the only one ...
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... spirit of peace , and laid in principles purely pacific . I propose , by removing the ground of the difference , and by restoring the former 20 unsuspecting confidence of the colonies in the mother country , to give permanent ...
... spirit of peace , and laid in principles purely pacific . I propose , by removing the ground of the difference , and by restoring the former 20 unsuspecting confidence of the colonies in the mother country , to give permanent ...
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... spirit that , besides feeding plentifully their own growing multitude , their annual export of grain , comprehending rice , has some years ago exceeded a million in value . Of their last harvest , I am persuaded , they will export much ...
... spirit that , besides feeding plentifully their own growing multitude , their annual export of grain , comprehending rice , has some years ago exceeded a million in value . Of their last harvest , I am persuaded , they will export much ...
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Страница 71 - 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.
Страница liii - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Страница 17 - 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 87 - AND after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, 2 And was transfigured before them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light 3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Страница 73 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Страница 72 - 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.
Страница 107 - That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council...
Страница 16 - Straits — while 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 resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Страница 19 - ... 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 33 - ... agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.