The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Том 1Little, Brown,, 1877 |
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... late been ever at war with your interest , your equity , and every idea of your policy . Show the thing you con tend for to be reason , show it to be common sense , show it to be the means of attaining some useful end , and then I am ...
... late been ever at war with your interest , your equity , and every idea of your policy . Show the thing you con tend for to be reason , show it to be common sense , show it to be the means of attaining some useful end , and then I am ...
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... late wilderness three thousand miles from all civil- ized intercourse . All this was done by England whilst England pur- sued trade and forgot revenue . You not only ac- quired commerce , but you actually created the very VOL II 3 ...
... late wilderness three thousand miles from all civil- ized intercourse . All this was done by England whilst England pur- sued trade and forgot revenue . You not only ac- quired commerce , but you actually created the very VOL II 3 ...
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... late war , contracted very large debts , which it will take some years to pay off , and in the mean time occasion very burdensome taxes for that purpose only . For instance , this government , which is as much beforehand as any , raises ...
... late war , contracted very large debts , which it will take some years to pay off , and in the mean time occasion very burdensome taxes for that purpose only . For instance , this government , which is as much beforehand as any , raises ...
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... late Mr. Yorke , then Attorney - General , on the point of law . When he knew that formally and officially which in substance he had known before , he immediately dispatched orders to redress the griev ance . But I will say it for the ...
... late Mr. Yorke , then Attorney - General , on the point of law . When he knew that formally and officially which in substance he had known before , he immediately dispatched orders to redress the griev ance . But I will say it for the ...
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... late disturbances , which have been at one time the minis- ter's motives for the repeal of five out of six of the new court taxes , and are now his pretences for refus- ing to repeal that sixth , did not amount - why do I compare them ...
... late disturbances , which have been at one time the minis- ter's motives for the repeal of five out of six of the new court taxes , and are now his pretences for refus- ing to repeal that sixth , did not amount - why do I compare them ...
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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...