Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with AmericaLongmans, Green, and Company, 1896 - 164 страници |
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... ment of a captain - general , with absolute power to levy and organize an army without reference to any colonial authority . In 1698 it prohibited the export of colonial woollens even from one colony to another . In 1706 it recommended ...
... ment of a captain - general , with absolute power to levy and organize an army without reference to any colonial authority . In 1698 it prohibited the export of colonial woollens even from one colony to another . In 1706 it recommended ...
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... ment directed that all cases of treason in the colonies should be tried in the mother country . This drew from Washington the declaration that no man should scruple or hesitate a moment to use arms in defence of freedom . " Yet arms , I ...
... ment directed that all cases of treason in the colonies should be tried in the mother country . This drew from Washington the declaration that no man should scruple or hesitate a moment to use arms in defence of freedom . " Yet arms , I ...
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... ment that established the American Association . On the day of the separation of this Congress , October 26th , the Congress of Massachusetts organized its militia , and began to prepare for the alternative of forcible resistance ...
... ment that established the American Association . On the day of the separation of this Congress , October 26th , the Congress of Massachusetts organized its militia , and began to prepare for the alternative of forcible resistance ...
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... ment . The difficulty of distance would have been very great , that of the appointment of representatives still greater , espe- cially as the House of Commons was then constituted ; that of a total want of community of interest between ...
... ment . The difficulty of distance would have been very great , that of the appointment of representatives still greater , espe- cially as the House of Commons was then constituted ; that of a total want of community of interest between ...
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... ment , and , as the Old Whigs had been growing unpopular , it seemed quite possible , with the aid of the Tories , to accom- plish this . George was quite decorous in behaviour , and , although subject to fits of insanity which became ...
... ment , and , as the Old Whigs had been growing unpopular , it seemed quite possible , with the aid of the Tories , to accom- plish this . George was quite decorous in behaviour , and , although subject to fits of insanity which became ...
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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.