Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with AmericaLongmans, Green, and Company, 1896 - 164 страници |
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... constitution already hoary with the prescription of centuries . Those who have studied the reign of George III . will easily understand the immense advantage of having a man like Burke to oppose these miserable delusions ; delusions ...
... constitution already hoary with the prescription of centuries . Those who have studied the reign of George III . will easily understand the immense advantage of having a man like Burke to oppose these miserable delusions ; delusions ...
Страница xxxv
... constitutional rights and privileges , and after- wards habituated ( though in America ) to keep an English peo- ple in a state of abject subjection , would prove fatal in the end to the liberties of England itself . " ' 1 The way for ...
... constitutional rights and privileges , and after- wards habituated ( though in America ) to keep an English peo- ple in a state of abject subjection , would prove fatal in the end to the liberties of England itself . " ' 1 The way for ...
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... constitutions and laws ; so many beauti- ful effusions of lofty and generous sentiment ; such exuberant stores of illustration , ornament , and apt illusion ; all inter- mingled with the liveliest sallies of wit or the boldest flights ...
... constitutions and laws ; so many beauti- ful effusions of lofty and generous sentiment ; such exuberant stores of illustration , ornament , and apt illusion ; all inter- mingled with the liveliest sallies of wit or the boldest flights ...
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... constitution of things . Here again he appeared , of neces- sity , more as a teacher than a logician , and hence many were led to underrate his argumentative powers . The exuberance of his fancy was likewise prejudicial to him in this ...
... constitution of things . Here again he appeared , of neces- sity , more as a teacher than a logician , and hence many were led to underrate his argumentative powers . The exuberance of his fancy was likewise prejudicial to him in this ...
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... Constitution to insist on this privilege of granting money as a dry point of fact , and to prove that the right had been acknowledged 35 - in ancient parchments and blind usages to reside in ENGLISH LIBERTY AND SELF - TAXATION 21.
... Constitution to insist on this privilege of granting money as a dry point of fact , and to prove that the right had been acknowledged 35 - in ancient parchments and blind usages to reside in ENGLISH LIBERTY AND SELF - TAXATION 21.
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Страница xxxix - 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 36 - ... which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
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 145 - And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
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 18 - 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 62 - 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 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 25 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Страница 20 - ... preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover, but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. Nothing less will content me than whole America. I do not choose to consume its strength along with our own ; because in all parts it is the British strength that I consume. I do not choose to be caught by a foreign enemy at the end of this exhausting conflict, and still less in the midst of it.