Speech on Conciliation with AmericaScott, Foresman, 1919 - 319 страници |
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... opinion had been poisoned by a Hanoverian . He was pleading the cause of English freedom against a dangerous despot- ism . His speech is a revelation of that ideal of democracy - of " Magnanimity as the truest wisdom " -which has guided ...
... opinion had been poisoned by a Hanoverian . He was pleading the cause of English freedom against a dangerous despot- ism . His speech is a revelation of that ideal of democracy - of " Magnanimity as the truest wisdom " -which has guided ...
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... opinion still wished the form of govern- ment to be a monarchy under a king who had a legal right to the throne by descent , but who should have ' See the Collateral Readings , pp . 146-155 . no power for tyranny . William , the ruler ...
... opinion still wished the form of govern- ment to be a monarchy under a king who had a legal right to the throne by descent , but who should have ' See the Collateral Readings , pp . 146-155 . no power for tyranny . William , the ruler ...
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... opinion was almost wholly on the side of despotism . Europe was strewn with the wrecks of the liberties of the past . All the greatest states , all the rising and most vigorous powers , were despotic , and the few re- maining sparks of ...
... opinion was almost wholly on the side of despotism . Europe was strewn with the wrecks of the liberties of the past . All the greatest states , all the rising and most vigorous powers , were despotic , and the few re- maining sparks of ...
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... opinion of England , decided that the Stamp Act must be repealed . Rockingham began to muster his forces and lay his plans . One of his moves was to secure a seat in Commons for Burke , who made his maiden speech on January 27 , 1766 ...
... opinion of England , decided that the Stamp Act must be repealed . Rockingham began to muster his forces and lay his plans . One of his moves was to secure a seat in Commons for Burke , who made his maiden speech on January 27 , 1766 ...
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... opinion which demanded a government by and for the people . When our new - born states were forming themselves into a republic , a new kind of House of Commons was elected in England - a kind that was responsive to public opinion . To ...
... opinion which demanded a government by and for the people . When our new - born states were forming themselves into a republic , a new kind of House of Commons was elected in England - a kind that was responsive to public opinion . To ...
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Страница 125 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Страница 255 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
Страница 58 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Страница 61 - 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 125 - ... of the world. Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire. Do not entertain so weak an imagination, as that your registers and your bonds, your affidavits and your sufferances, your cockets and your clearances, are what form the great securities of your commerce.
Страница 124 - 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.
Страница 254 - You may swell every expense and every effort still more extravagantly ; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles...
Страница 66 - Blackstone's <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 126 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us — a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Страница 60 - These, Sir, are my reasons for not entertaining that high opinion of untried force, by which many gentlemen, for whose sentiments in other particulars I have great respect, seem to be so greatly captivated. But there is still...