The Works of Edmund Burke, Том 2C. C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 |
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... attempting to raise public expectation by great promises . At this time , there is much cause to con- sider , and very little to presume . We seem to be approaching to a great crisis in our affairs , which calls for the whole wisdom of ...
... attempting to raise public expectation by great promises . At this time , there is much cause to con- sider , and very little to presume . We seem to be approaching to a great crisis in our affairs , which calls for the whole wisdom of ...
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... attempt for a general massacre of suffrages ; an attempt , by a promiscuous carnage of friends and foes , to exterminate above two thousand votes , including seven hundred polled for the gentleman himself , who now complains , and who ...
... attempt for a general massacre of suffrages ; an attempt , by a promiscuous carnage of friends and foes , to exterminate above two thousand votes , including seven hundred polled for the gentleman himself , who now complains , and who ...
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... attempt , an undertaking that would ennoble the flights of the highest genius , and obtain pardon for the efforts of the meanest understanding . Struggling a good while with these thoughts , by degrees I felt myself more firm . I ...
... attempt , an undertaking that would ennoble the flights of the highest genius , and obtain pardon for the efforts of the meanest understanding . Struggling a good while with these thoughts , by degrees I felt myself more firm . I ...
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... attempt to separate them , would tear to pieces the contexture of the whole ; and if not entirely destroy , would very much depreciate the value of all the parts . I therefore consider these three denominations to be , what in effect ...
... attempt to separate them , would tear to pieces the contexture of the whole ; and if not entirely destroy , would very much depreciate the value of all the parts . I therefore consider these three denominations to be , what in effect ...
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... attempt to mend it and our sin far more salutary than our penitence . These , sir , are my reasons for not entertaining that high opinion of untried force , by which many gentlemen , for whose sentiments in other particulars I have ...
... attempt to mend it and our sin far more salutary than our penitence . These , sir , are my reasons for not entertaining that high opinion of untried force , by which many gentlemen , for whose sentiments in other particulars I have ...
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Страница 58 - 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 honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Страница 6 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits, whilst 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.
Страница 13 - Who are you, that should fret and rage and bite the chains of nature? Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire, and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities.
Страница 24 - If then the removal of the causes of this spirit of American liberty be, for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable; if the ideas of criminal process be inapplicable, or, if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient, what way yet remains? No way is open, but the third and last — to comply with the American spirit as necessary; or, if you please to submit to it, as a necessary evil.
Страница 8 - First, the people of the colonies arc descendants of Englishmen. 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 10 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound.
Страница 25 - ... made from your want of right to keep what you grant? Or does it lessen the grace or dignity of relaxing in the exercise of an odious claim because you have your evidence-room full of titles, and your magazines stuffed with arms to enforce them? What signify all those titles and all those arms? Of what avail are they, when the reason of the thing tells me that the assertion of my title is the loss of my suit, and that I could do nothing but wound myself by the use of my own weapons...
Страница 60 - An act for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Страница 19 - The temper and character, which prevail in our colonies, are, I am afraid, unalterable by any human art. We cannot, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation, in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates.