Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775D.C. Heath & Company, 1900 |
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Edmund Burke. ΤΟ THOMAS EMERSON IN MEMORY OF PLEASANT ASSOCIATIONS " BLEST Statesman He , whose Mind's unselfish will Leaves.
Edmund Burke. ΤΟ THOMAS EMERSON IN MEMORY OF PLEASANT ASSOCIATIONS " BLEST Statesman He , whose Mind's unselfish will Leaves.
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Edmund Burke. " BLEST Statesman He , whose Mind's unselfish will Leaves him at ease among grand thoughts : whose eye Sees that , apart from magnanimity , Wisdom exists not ; nor the humbler skill Of Prudence , disentangling good and ill ...
Edmund Burke. " BLEST Statesman He , whose Mind's unselfish will Leaves him at ease among grand thoughts : whose eye Sees that , apart from magnanimity , Wisdom exists not ; nor the humbler skill Of Prudence , disentangling good and ill ...
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... mind and art from the early pamphlets to the great speeches in Parliament is the gradual unfolding of that mysterious something which defies analysis , and to which we give the name of Genius . The Speeches on the American War represent ...
... mind and art from the early pamphlets to the great speeches in Parliament is the gradual unfolding of that mysterious something which defies analysis , and to which we give the name of Genius . The Speeches on the American War represent ...
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... mind like Burke's and the least oratorical of all poets , yet under this difference of form and temper there is a striking likeness in spirit . There was the same energetic feeling about moral ideas , the same frame of counsel and ...
... mind like Burke's and the least oratorical of all poets , yet under this difference of form and temper there is a striking likeness in spirit . There was the same energetic feeling about moral ideas , the same frame of counsel and ...
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... mind . The new requirements in English for College Entrance Examinations will do much to raise the character of English teaching in secondary schools , and will make the editing of English classics something other than the mechanical ...
... mind . The new requirements in English for College Entrance Examinations will do much to raise the character of English teaching in secondary schools , and will make the editing of English classics something other than the mechanical ...
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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.