Speeches: With Memoir and Historical IntroductionsJames Duffy, 1862 - 456 страници |
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... duty , which had exasperated America , Burke supported the motion , and though he did not rise till a late hour , he by the enchantment of his eloquence , captivated many who had thought the subject exhausted . At the close of one ...
... duty , which had exasperated America , Burke supported the motion , and though he did not rise till a late hour , he by the enchantment of his eloquence , captivated many who had thought the subject exhausted . At the close of one ...
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... duty of 3d . per lb. , imposed under the Act of 1767 , on tea imported into America . was on this occasion that Burke , then member for the borough of We lover , delivered the following speec an oration which contains some of the most ...
... duty of 3d . per lb. , imposed under the Act of 1767 , on tea imported into America . was on this occasion that Burke , then member for the borough of We lover , delivered the following speec an oration which contains some of the most ...
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... duty on wine as loudly as they do now for the repeal of the duty on tea ? Sir , I can give no security on this subject . But I will do all that I can , and all that can be fairly demanded . To the experience which the honourable gentle ...
... duty on wine as loudly as they do now for the repeal of the duty on tea ? Sir , I can give no security on this subject . But I will do all that I can , and all that can be fairly demanded . To the experience which the honourable gentle ...
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... duty , sets forth in its pre- amble , that it was expedient to raise a revenue in America , for the support of the civil government there , as well as for purposes still more extensive . To this support the act assigns six branches of ...
... duty , sets forth in its pre- amble , that it was expedient to raise a revenue in America , for the support of the civil government there , as well as for purposes still more extensive . To this support the act assigns six branches of ...
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... Now where is the revenue which is to do all these mighty things ? Five - sixths repealed , abandoned , sunk , gone , lost for ever . Does the poor solitary tea duty support the purposes of this preamble ? Is not ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 29.
... Now where is the revenue which is to do all these mighty things ? Five - sixths repealed , abandoned , sunk , gone , lost for ever . Does the poor solitary tea duty support the purposes of this preamble ? Is not ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 29.
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Страница 121 - 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 443 - 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 145 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt ; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Страница 82 - ... when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, — I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Страница 87 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. 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 122 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Страница 326 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed...
Страница 86 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Страница 122 - 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, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble and your navy...
Страница 325 - ... and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved, in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance, and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those, against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together, was no protection.