The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Том 1Little, Brown,, 1877 |
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... empire , no topic has been more familiar to us . For nine long years , session after session , we have been lashed round and round this miserable circle of occasional arguments and tempo- rary expedients . I am sure our heads must turn ...
... empire , no topic has been more familiar to us . For nine long years , session after session , we have been lashed round and round this miserable circle of occasional arguments and tempo- rary expedients . I am sure our heads must turn ...
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... empire to its deep- est foundations . Of those two propositions I shall , before I have done , give such convincing , such damning proof , that , however the contrary may be whispered in circles or bawled in newspapers , they never more ...
... empire to its deep- est foundations . Of those two propositions I shall , before I have done , give such convincing , such damning proof , that , however the contrary may be whispered in circles or bawled in newspapers , they never more ...
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... empire that circled the whole globe . Do you forget that in the very last year you stood on the precipice of general bankruptcy ? Your dan- ger was indeed great . You were distressed in the af fairs of the East India Company ; and you ...
... empire that circled the whole globe . Do you forget that in the very last year you stood on the precipice of general bankruptcy ? Your dan- ger was indeed great . You were distressed in the af fairs of the East India Company ; and you ...
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... empire depend . " Here , Sir , is a canonical book of ministerial scrip- ture : the general epistle to the Americans . What docs the gentleman say to it ? Here a repeal is prom- ised , promised without condition , and while your ...
... empire depend . " Here , Sir , is a canonical book of ministerial scrip- ture : the general epistle to the Americans . What docs the gentleman say to it ? Here a repeal is prom- ised , promised without condition , and while your ...
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... empire depend . " 66 After this letter , the question is no more on pro- priety or dignity . They are gone already . The faith of your sovereign is pledged for the political principle . The general declaration in the letter goes to the ...
... empire depend . " 66 After this letter , the question is no more on pro- priety or dignity . They are gone already . The faith of your sovereign is pledged for the political principle . The general declaration in the letter goes to the ...
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Страница 182 - 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 honorable conquests, not by destroying but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Страница 150 - From that moment, as by a charm, the tumults subsided ; obedience was restored ; peace, order, and civilization followed in the train of liberty. When the day-star of the English Constitution had arisen in their hearts, all was harmony within and without. Simul alba nautis Stella refulsit, Defluit saxis agitatus humor : Concidunt venti, fugiuntque nubes ; Et minax (quod sic voluere) ponto Unda recumbit.
Страница 38 - 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 124 - The fact is so : and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. 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 123 - But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance : it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Страница 124 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Страница 163 - An Act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs upon the exportation from this kingdom of coffee and...
Страница 110 - Such is the strength with which population shoots in that part of the world that, state the numbers as high as we will, whilst the dispute continues, the exaggeration ends. Whilst we are "discussing any given magnitude, they are grown to it.
Страница 64 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
Страница 164 - America, and for more effectually preventing the clandestine running of goods in the said colonies and plantations ; and that it may be proper to repeal an act, made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled, An act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town and within the harbor of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America...