British Eloquence, Том 1Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1884 |
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... Empire . The loss of Minorca , the cap- ture of Calcutta , the defeat of Gen. Braddock , the threatened invasion of England by the French , were themes well calculated to call forth his awful invective . The result was that Newcastle 90 ...
... Empire . The loss of Minorca , the cap- ture of Calcutta , the defeat of Gen. Braddock , the threatened invasion of England by the French , were themes well calculated to call forth his awful invective . The result was that Newcastle 90 ...
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... empire to ruin and contempt ! " But yesterday , and England might have stood against the world : now none so poor to do her reverence . " I use the words of a poet ; but , though it be poetry , it is no fiction . It is a shameful truth ...
... empire to ruin and contempt ! " But yesterday , and England might have stood against the world : now none so poor to do her reverence . " I use the words of a poet ; but , though it be poetry , it is no fiction . It is a shameful truth ...
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... empire . The sound parts of America , of which I have spoken , must be sensible of these great truths and of their real interests . America is not in that state of desperate and contemptible rebel- lion which this country has been ...
... empire . The sound parts of America , of which I have spoken , must be sensible of these great truths and of their real interests . America is not in that state of desperate and contemptible rebel- lion which this country has been ...
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... permanent and powerful reunion with this country ; to revive the mutual strength of the empire ; again to awe the House of Bourbon , instead of meanly truckling , as our present calamities compel us , to every in- sult 136 LORD CHATHAM .
... permanent and powerful reunion with this country ; to revive the mutual strength of the empire ; again to awe the House of Bourbon , instead of meanly truckling , as our present calamities compel us , to every in- sult 136 LORD CHATHAM .
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... empire . But our colonies , on the contrary , emigrated under the sanction of the Crown and Parlia- ment . They were modelled gradually into their present forms , respectively , by charters , grants , and statutes ; but they were never ...
... empire . But our colonies , on the contrary , emigrated under the sanction of the Crown and Parlia- ment . They were modelled gradually into their present forms , respectively , by charters , grants , and statutes ; but they were never ...
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Страница 189 - 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 297 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm ; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.
Страница 218 - 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 101 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation, the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the Peers and the Crown to a tax, is only necessary to close with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Страница 204 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet, the spirit by -which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration. 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...
Страница 209 - English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness.
Страница 206 - 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 231 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures, as Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual at the bar. I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies, intrusted with magistracies of great authority and dignity, and charged with the safety of their fellow-citizens, upon the very same title that I am. I really think that, for wise men, this is not judicious ; for sober men,...
Страница 225 - ... 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 293 - 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...