Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America: Edited with Notes and an IntroductionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1896 - 164 страници |
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... reign of George II . a proposal had been made to in- crease the revenue by taxing the colonies , which , as the Ameri- cans were totally unrepresented in Parliament , was simply a proposition to tax an entire people , without even the ...
... reign of George II . a proposal had been made to in- crease the revenue by taxing the colonies , which , as the Ameri- cans were totally unrepresented in Parliament , was simply a proposition to tax an entire people , without even the ...
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... reign of George II . , no minister had dared to propose . Formerly such a proposition , if made , would certainly have been rejected ; now the most powerful parties in the state were united in its favour . The king on every occasion ...
... reign of George II . , no minister had dared to propose . Formerly such a proposition , if made , would certainly have been rejected ; now the most powerful parties in the state were united in its favour . The king on every occasion ...
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... reign was set at naught , and the national councils guided by rash and igno- rant men , who soon brought the greatest disasters upon the country , and within a few years actually dismembered the empire . In order to enforce the ...
... reign was set at naught , and the national councils guided by rash and igno- rant men , who soon brought the greatest disasters upon the country , and within a few years actually dismembered the empire . In order to enforce the ...
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... reign of George III . would in- deed be miserably imperfect , if it were to omit the name of Edmund Burke . The studies of this extraordinary man not only covered the whole field of political inquiry , but extended to an immense variety ...
... reign of George III . would in- deed be miserably imperfect , if it were to omit the name of Edmund Burke . The studies of this extraordinary man not only covered the whole field of political inquiry , but extended to an immense variety ...
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... reign of George III . will easily understand the immense advantage of having a man like Burke to oppose these miserable delusions ; delusions which have been fatal to many countries , and have more than once almost ruined our own . They ...
... reign of George III . will easily understand the immense advantage of having a man like Burke to oppose these miserable delusions ; delusions which have been fatal to many countries , and have more than once almost ruined our own . They ...
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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.