Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775D.C. Heath & Company, 1900 |
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... experience , who , in the year 1766 , filled the chair of the American committee with much ability , took me aside ; and , lamenting the present aspect of our politics , told me , things were come to such a pass , that our former ...
... experience , who , in the year 1766 , filled the chair of the American committee with much ability , took me aside ; and , lamenting the present aspect of our politics , told me , things were come to such a pass , that our former ...
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... experience . 20 · - Sir , I should be inexcusable in coming after such a person with any detail , if a great part of the members who now fill the House had not the misfortune to be absent when he appeared at your bar . Besides , Sir , I ...
... experience . 20 · - Sir , I should be inexcusable in coming after such a person with any detail , if a great part of the members who now fill the House had not the misfortune to be absent when he appeared at your bar . Besides , Sir , I ...
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... experience in favour of force 15 as an instrument in the rule of our colonies . Their growth and their utility has been owing to methods altogether different . Our ancient indulgence has been said to be 33 pursued to a fault . It may be ...
... experience in favour of force 15 as an instrument in the rule of our colonies . Their growth and their utility has been owing to methods altogether different . Our ancient indulgence has been said to be 33 pursued to a fault . It may be ...
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... experience has shown the benefit of their grants , and the futility of parliamentary taxation as a method of supply . These solid truths compose six fundamental propositions . 25 There are three more resolutions corollary to these . If ...
... experience has shown the benefit of their grants , and the futility of parliamentary taxation as a method of supply . These solid truths compose six fundamental propositions . 25 There are three more resolutions corollary to these . If ...
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... experience , that the manner of granting the said 15 supplies and aids , by the said general assemblies , hath been more agreeable to the said colonies , and more beneficial , and conducive to the public service , than the mode of ...
... experience , that the manner of granting the said 15 supplies and aids , by the said general assemblies , hath been more agreeable to the said colonies , and more beneficial , and conducive to the public service , than the mode of ...
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Страница ix - For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Страница 76 - 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 39 - 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 16 - 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 - And that it may be proper to repeal an act made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, entitled, "An act for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Страница 16 - Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.
Страница 76 - 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.
Страница 15 - Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Страница xvii - She has a world of ready wealth, Our minds and hearts to bless — Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health, Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
Страница 38 - These are deep questions, where great names militate against each other ; where reason is perplexed ; and an appeal to authorities only thickens the confusion. For high and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both sides ; and there is no sure footing in the middle. This point " is the great Serbonian bog, Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk.