Speeches: With Memoir and Historical IntroductionsJames Duffy, 1862 - 456 страници |
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... oppression , and felt as if he had a special mission to denounce injustice . " The plain truth , " says the distinguished author whom we have named , " is this : Hast- ings had committed some great crimes , and the thought of these ...
... oppression , and felt as if he had a special mission to denounce injustice . " The plain truth , " says the distinguished author whom we have named , " is this : Hast- ings had committed some great crimes , and the thought of these ...
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... oppression , although he had supported America in resistance to wrong . Burke felt this accusation keenly , and complained that Fox had trcated him with harshness . " We have often differed on some subjects before , " said he , " but ...
... oppression , although he had supported America in resistance to wrong . Burke felt this accusation keenly , and complained that Fox had trcated him with harshness . " We have often differed on some subjects before , " said he , " but ...
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... oppressive to their minds ; Sir , the letter strongly enforces that idea , for though the repeal of the taxes is promised on commercial principles , yet the means of counteracting the insinuations of men with factious and seditious ...
... oppressive to their minds ; Sir , the letter strongly enforces that idea , for though the repeal of the taxes is promised on commercial principles , yet the means of counteracting the insinuations of men with factious and seditious ...
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... this deliberation oppressed me . I found myself a partaker in a very high and having no sort of reason to rely on the strength of my trust ; natural abilities for the proper execution of that trust , 72 ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA .
... this deliberation oppressed me . I found myself a partaker in a very high and having no sort of reason to rely on the strength of my trust ; natural abilities for the proper execution of that trust , 72 ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA .
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... oppressed with such great and present evils . The more mo- derate among the opposers of parliamentary concession freely confess , that they hope no good from taxation ; but they apprehend the colo- nists have further views , and if this ...
... oppressed with such great and present evils . The more mo- derate among the opposers of parliamentary concession freely confess , that they hope no good from taxation ; but they apprehend the colo- nists have further views , and if this ...
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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.