Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with AmericaLongmans, Green, and Company, 1896 - 164 страници |
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... Crown . In Massachusetts these changes were opposed ; the General Court of the colony resolved " that the Acts of Navigation are an invasion of the rights and privi- leges of the subjects of his Majesty in this colony , they not being ...
... Crown . In Massachusetts these changes were opposed ; the General Court of the colony resolved " that the Acts of Navigation are an invasion of the rights and privi- leges of the subjects of his Majesty in this colony , they not being ...
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... . It may even be said that the determination of George III . to hold the colonies at whatever cost of blood and treasure , at whatever risk to his crown , was more compli 動 mentary to them , if it was less kind , xviii INTRODUCTION.
... . It may even be said that the determination of George III . to hold the colonies at whatever cost of blood and treasure , at whatever risk to his crown , was more compli 動 mentary to them , if it was less kind , xviii INTRODUCTION.
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... the great families which had thus governed England for half a century belonged to the party known as Old Whigs . Under their rule 21 the power of the crown had been reduced to INTRODUCTION xix mentary to them, if it was less kind, ...
... the great families which had thus governed England for half a century belonged to the party known as Old Whigs . Under their rule 21 the power of the crown had been reduced to INTRODUCTION xix mentary to them, if it was less kind, ...
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... crown and given the country a brief taste of civil war . By 1760 the Tories saw that the cause of the Stuarts was hopeless , and so they were inclined to transfer their affec- tions to the new king . George III . was a young man of nar ...
... crown and given the country a brief taste of civil war . By 1760 the Tories saw that the cause of the Stuarts was hopeless , and so they were inclined to transfer their affec- tions to the new king . George III . was a young man of nar ...
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... crown than ever . Accord- ingly there were no men whom he dreaded and wished to put down so much as the New Whigs ; and he felt that in the re- peal of the Stamp Act , no matter on what ground , they had come altogether too near winning ...
... crown than ever . Accord- ingly there were no men whom he dreaded and wished to put down so much as the New Whigs ; and he felt that in the re- peal of the Stamp Act , no matter on what ground , they had come altogether too near winning ...
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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.