Burke's Speech on Conciliation with AmericanGinn, 1897 - 152 страници |
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... Lord North , George played one faction against the other . He strove to break the power of the Old Whigs by getting their " rotten boroughs " into his own hands , and he weakened the New Whigs by the use of political patronage . Thus he ...
... Lord North , George played one faction against the other . He strove to break the power of the Old Whigs by getting their " rotten boroughs " into his own hands , and he weakened the New Whigs by the use of political patronage . Thus he ...
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... Lord of Trade , that is , head of the committee of the Privy Council in charge of colonial affairs . Both were royal hench- men . Townshend believed in holding the colonies with a firm hand , in depriving them of the right of self ...
... Lord of Trade , that is , head of the committee of the Privy Council in charge of colonial affairs . Both were royal hench- men . Townshend believed in holding the colonies with a firm hand , in depriving them of the right of self ...
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... Lord Rockingham , leader of that faction of the Old Whigs with which Burke usually acted , became Prime Minister , and proposed the repeal of the Stamp Act on the ground of policy . During the hot debates over this motion and over all ...
... Lord Rockingham , leader of that faction of the Old Whigs with which Burke usually acted , became Prime Minister , and proposed the repeal of the Stamp Act on the ground of policy . During the hot debates over this motion and over all ...
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... lord - lieutenant . Here Burke studied on the spot those evil effects of oppression on which he dwells in this speech ; for the punishment of Irish rebellion by restricting commerce and manufactures , by taking many of the ordinary ...
... lord - lieutenant . Here Burke studied on the spot those evil effects of oppression on which he dwells in this speech ; for the punishment of Irish rebellion by restricting commerce and manufactures , by taking many of the ordinary ...
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... Lord Rockingham when the latter became Prime Minister in 1765. This place Burke accepted , and just at the close of the year he was elected a member of Parliament from Wendover . Within a week or two after taking his seat , at the ...
... Lord Rockingham when the latter became Prime Minister in 1765. This place Burke accepted , and just at the close of the year he was elected a member of Parliament from Wendover . Within a week or two after taking his seat , at the ...
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Страница liii - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Страница 72 - They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly. This is the true act of navigation which binds to you the commerce of the colonies, and through them secures to you the wealth of the world. Deny them this participation of freedom and you break that sole bond which originally made and must still preserve...
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Страница 71 - 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. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it...
Страница 19 - ... 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 107 - That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council...
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Страница 73 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.