Representative British Orations: With Introductions and Explanatory Notes, Том 1Charles Kendall Adams G.P. Putnam's sons, 1884 |
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... thing that does not form an essential part of his argument ; and therefore in editing these orations it has seldom been thought wise to make either reductions or omissions . In a few instances , notably in the speeches of Fox and Cobden ...
... thing that does not form an essential part of his argument ; and therefore in editing these orations it has seldom been thought wise to make either reductions or omissions . In a few instances , notably in the speeches of Fox and Cobden ...
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... thing in favor of the Continental policy , while Parliament was equally anxious to main- tain the traditional methods . It was unavoid- able that a conflict should ensue ; and the Great Revolution of the seventeenth century was the ...
... thing in favor of the Continental policy , while Parliament was equally anxious to main- tain the traditional methods . It was unavoid- able that a conflict should ensue ; and the Great Revolution of the seventeenth century was the ...
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... things , and have so often told us in this place of their knowledge in the conjunctures and disjunctures of affairs , say they advised in this ? Was this an act of coun- cil , Mr. Speaker ? I have more charity than to think it ; and ...
... things , and have so often told us in this place of their knowledge in the conjunctures and disjunctures of affairs , say they advised in this ? Was this an act of coun- cil , Mr. Speaker ? I have more charity than to think it ; and ...
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... things would be manifest , and more . I will not instance now the manifestation that was made for the reason of these arms ; nor by whom , nor in what manner , nor on what grounds it was published ; nor what effects it has wrought ...
... things would be manifest , and more . I will not instance now the manifestation that was made for the reason of these arms ; nor by whom , nor in what manner , nor on what grounds it was published ; nor what effects it has wrought ...
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... things , sir , I shall desire to have taken into consideration . That as we are the great council of the kingdom , and have the appre- hension of these dangers , we may truly repre- sent them to the King ; wherein I conceive we are ...
... things , sir , I shall desire to have taken into consideration . That as we are the great council of the kingdom , and have the appre- hension of these dangers , we may truly repre- sent them to the King ; wherein I conceive we are ...
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Страница 201 - 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.
Страница 183 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war ; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented, from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace ; sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...
Страница 210 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Curdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Страница 183 - ... its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of peace, and laid in principles purely pacific. I propose, by removing the ground of the difference, and by restoring the former unsuspecting confidence of the colonies in the mother country, to give permanent satisfaction to your people; and (far from a scheme of ruling by discord) to reconcile them to each other in the same act and by the bond of the very same interest which reconciles them to British government.
Страница 200 - I am sensible, sir, that all which I have asserted in my detail is admitted in the gross; but that quite a different conclusion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them.
Страница 209 - In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Страница 223 - ... individuals, or even of bands of men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, 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 so this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Страница 217 - ... deserts. If you drive the people from one place, they will carry on their annual tillage, and remove with their flocks and herds to another. Many of the people in the back settlements are already little attached to particular situations. Already they have topped the Appalachian mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain — one vast, rich, level meadow, a square of five hundred miles.
Страница 285 - Do you imagine, then, that it is the Land Tax Act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply, which gives you your army ? or, that it Is the Mutiny Bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline ? No ! — surely no ! It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Страница 196 - I choose, sir, to enter into these minute and particular details ; because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have here a tendency to sink it. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth ; invention is unfruitful : and imagination cold and barren.