Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America: Edited with Notes and an IntroductionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1896 - 164 страници |
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... principle that people must not be taxed except by their representatives had been to some extent recognized in England for five hundred years , and it was really the fundamental prin- ciple of English liberty , but it was only very ...
... principle that people must not be taxed except by their representatives had been to some extent recognized in England for five hundred years , and it was really the fundamental prin- ciple of English liberty , but it was only very ...
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... principles of English liberty that the inhabitants of such great towns should be obliged to pay taxes in pursuance of laws which they had no share in making . The leader of the New Whigs was the greatest Englishman of the eighteenth ...
... principles of English liberty that the inhabitants of such great towns should be obliged to pay taxes in pursuance of laws which they had no share in making . The leader of the New Whigs was the greatest Englishman of the eighteenth ...
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... principle that there should be no taxation without representation . Edmund Burke and the Old Whigs , being opposed to parliamentary reform and in favour of keeping things just as they were , could not adopt such an argument ; and ...
... principle that there should be no taxation without representation . Edmund Burke and the Old Whigs , being opposed to parliamentary reform and in favour of keeping things just as they were , could not adopt such an argument ; and ...
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... principles in America , he could then turn and crush them in England . In this he was correct , except that he mis- calculated the strength of the Americans . It was the defeat of his schemes in America that ensured their defeat in ...
... principles in America , he could then turn and crush them in England . In this he was correct , except that he mis- calculated the strength of the Americans . It was the defeat of his schemes in America that ensured their defeat in ...
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... principles which , for the first time since the Revolution , were now revived at the English court ; and looking , on the other hand , at the independent spirit of the colonists , —it was impossible to avoid a struggle between the two ...
... principles which , for the first time since the Revolution , were now revived at the English court ; and looking , on the other hand , at the independent spirit of the colonists , —it was impossible to avoid a struggle between the two ...
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Страница 40 - 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 lx - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Страница 15 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Страница 137 - ... bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations 'airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the...
Страница lx - Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot, too cool; for a drudge, disobedient, And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold, and cut blocks with a razor.
Страница lvi - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Страница 20 - Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole: and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your Colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of Liberty is stronger in the English Colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Страница 17 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Страница 76 - 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 146 - Whereas it is expedient that a revenue should be raised in your majesty's dominions in America, for making a more certain and adequate provision for defraying the charge of the administration of justice, and support of civil government, in such provinces where it shall be found necessary ; and towards further defraying the expenses of defending, protecting, and securing the said dominions.