Burke's Speech on Conciliation with AmericanGinn, 1897 - 152 страници |
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... Ireland and the British West Indies ; and it issued addresses to the people of Great Britain , to the colonists , to the inhabitants of Quebec , and to the king . " When in reply Parliament declared a rebellion 1o and proposed further ...
... Ireland and the British West Indies ; and it issued addresses to the people of Great Britain , to the colonists , to the inhabitants of Quebec , and to the king . " When in reply Parliament declared a rebellion 1o and proposed further ...
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... Ireland in 1729 , 1 the son of a solicitor in good practice . Though Burke's mother was a Roman Catholic and brought up his sister in the same faith , yet he and his two brothers adopted the religion of their Protestant father ...
... Ireland in 1729 , 1 the son of a solicitor in good practice . Though Burke's mother was a Roman Catholic and brought up his sister in the same faith , yet he and his two brothers adopted the religion of their Protestant father ...
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... Ireland , attached in some indefinite way , perhaps as a sort of secretary , to William Gerard Hamilton , " Single - speech " Hamilton , - who was secretary to the lord - lieutenant . Here Burke studied on the spot those evil effects of ...
... Ireland , attached in some indefinite way , perhaps as a sort of secretary , to William Gerard Hamilton , " Single - speech " Hamilton , - who was secretary to the lord - lieutenant . Here Burke studied on the spot those evil effects of ...
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... Ireland united to the crown of Great Britain for no other purpose than that we should counteract the bounty of Providence in her favor ? ... Indeed , Sir , England and Ireland may flourish together . The world is large enough for us ...
... Ireland united to the crown of Great Britain for no other purpose than that we should counteract the bounty of Providence in her favor ? ... Indeed , Sir , England and Ireland may flourish together . The world is large enough for us ...
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... Ireland , he showed his old qualities of statesmanship . He had always been a cham- pion of his down - trodden native land , just as he had been a champion of America and India . In his boyhood , as we have seen , he endeavored to ...
... Ireland , he showed his old qualities of statesmanship . He had always been a cham- pion of his down - trodden native land , just as he had been a champion of America and India . In his boyhood , as we have seen , he endeavored to ...
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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.