Conciliation with the American ColoniesAmerican Book Company, 1895 - 95 страници |
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... House of Commons , " said one of his con- temporaries , " who has astonished everybody with the power of his eloquence and his comprehensive knowledge in all our exterior and internal politics and commercial interests . " He represented ...
... House of Commons , " said one of his con- temporaries , " who has astonished everybody with the power of his eloquence and his comprehensive knowledge in all our exterior and internal politics and commercial interests . " He represented ...
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... House of Commons . master - In return for all this disinterested service , and in recognition of his marvelous executive ability , we might well expect to see him filling one of the highest positions the government had to be- stow . And ...
... House of Commons . master - In return for all this disinterested service , and in recognition of his marvelous executive ability , we might well expect to see him filling one of the highest positions the government had to be- stow . And ...
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... House of Com- mons , March 22 , 1775 , on moving his resolutions for conciliation with the colonies . 2 House of Lords . A few weeks previous , Lord North , at that time Prime Minister of England , had proposed an act to restrain the ...
... House of Com- mons , March 22 , 1775 , on moving his resolutions for conciliation with the colonies . 2 House of Lords . A few weeks previous , Lord North , at that time Prime Minister of England , had proposed an act to restrain the ...
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... House , the affairs of that continent pressed themselves upon us , as the most important and most delicate object of parliamentary atten- tion .. My little share in this great deliberation oppressed me . I found myself a partaker in a ...
... House , the affairs of that continent pressed themselves upon us , as the most important and most delicate object of parliamentary atten- tion .. My little share in this great deliberation oppressed me . I found myself a partaker in a ...
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... House would be no longer tolerated . That the public tribunal ( never too indulgent to a long and unsuccessful opposition ) would now scrutinize our conduct with unusual severity . That the very vicissitudes and shiftings of ministerial ...
... House would be no longer tolerated . That the public tribunal ( never too indulgent to a long and unsuccessful opposition ) would now scrutinize our conduct with unusual severity . That the very vicissitudes and shiftings of ministerial ...
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Страница 50 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Страница 37 - 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.
Страница 44 - 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. The language in which they would hear you tell them this tale would detect the imposition ; your speech would betray you. An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into// slavery.
Страница 56 - Welsh nation followed the genius of the government; the people were ferocious, restive, savage, and uncultivated; sometimes composed, never pacified. Wales within itself, was in perpetual disorder; and it kept the frontier of England in perpetual alarm. Benefits from it to the state, there were none. Wales was only known, to England by incursion and invasion. Sir, during that state of things, parliament was not idle. They attempted to subdue the fierce spirit of the Welsh by all sorts of rigorous...
Страница 36 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Страница 31 - 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 36 - Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
Страница 34 - ... and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound. I do not say whether they were right or wrong in applying your general arguments to their own case. It is not easy, indeed, to make a monopoly of theorems and corollaries. The fact...
Страница 45 - But let us suppose all these moral difficulties got over. The ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry; and as long as it continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy!
Страница 33 - They took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that, in all monarchies, the people must in effect themselves mediately or immediately possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty could subsist.