Speech on Conciliation with AmericaGinn, 1897 - 152 страници |
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... February 10 , 1775 ( P. H. , 299 ) , he defended it on the ground that , because the Americans refused to trade with England , England should not suffer them to trade with any other nation . Burke replied ( ibid . , 304 ) that the bill ...
... February 10 , 1775 ( P. H. , 299 ) , he defended it on the ground that , because the Americans refused to trade with England , England should not suffer them to trade with any other nation . Burke replied ( ibid . , 304 ) that the bill ...
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... February 24 and 28 and March 6. On the last of these days Burke attacked it again ( ibid . , 389 ) , declaring that it attempted to preserve authority by destroying dominion ; and that it passed sentence of beggary , if not famine , on ...
... February 24 and 28 and March 6. On the last of these days Burke attacked it again ( ibid . , 389 ) , declaring that it attempted to preserve authority by destroying dominion ; and that it passed sentence of beggary , if not famine , on ...
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... February 20 , 1775 , Lord North brought in a resolution ( P. H. , 319 ) that when any colony made proper provision for contributing its proportion for the common defence and for maintaining civil government , Parliament should no longer ...
... February 20 , 1775 , Lord North brought in a resolution ( P. H. , 319 ) that when any colony made proper provision for contributing its proportion for the common defence and for maintaining civil government , Parliament should no longer ...
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... February 27 . 8 4. noble lord . Lord North : born 1732 ; Prime Minister from 1770 to 1782 ; died 1792. He steadily opposed all concessions to the Ameri- cans , though it is said that in this mistaken policy he often followed the king's ...
... February 27 . 8 4. noble lord . Lord North : born 1732 ; Prime Minister from 1770 to 1782 ; died 1792. He steadily opposed all concessions to the Ameri- cans , though it is said that in this mistaken policy he often followed the king's ...
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... February 9 , 1775 , the houses of Parliament had pre- sented to the king a joint address on the disturbances in America , declar- ing that no part of the sovereign authority over the colonies should be relinquished , and closing with ...
... February 9 , 1775 , the houses of Parliament had pre- sented to the king a joint address on the disturbances in America , declar- ing that no part of the sovereign authority over the colonies should be relinquished , and closing with ...
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Страница 17 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Страница liii - 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 87 - AND after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, 2 And was transfigured before them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light 3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Страница 72 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly.
Страница 73 - 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 18 - My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource; for, conciliation failing, force remains, but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.
Страница 107 - That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council...
Страница 16 - Straits — while 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.* Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Страница 76 - 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 72 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.