Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775D.C. Heath & Company, 1900 |
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... sort of providential favour ; by which we are put once more in possession of our deliberate capacity , upon a business so very questionable in its nature , so very uncertain in its issue . By the return of this bill , which 15 seemed to ...
... sort of providential favour ; by which we are put once more in possession of our deliberate capacity , upon a business so very questionable in its nature , so very uncertain in its issue . By the return of this bill , which 15 seemed to ...
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... sort of reason to rely on the 15 strength of my natural abilities for the proper execution of that trust , I was obliged to take more than common pains to instruct myself in everything which relates to our colonies . I was not less ...
... sort of reason to rely on the 15 strength of my natural abilities for the proper execution of that trust , I was obliged to take more than common pains to instruct myself in everything which relates to our colonies . I was not less ...
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... sort of parliamentary form , I was by no means equally ready to produce them . It generally argues some degree of natural impotence of mind , or some want of knowledge of the world , 20 to hazard plans of government except from a seat ...
... sort of parliamentary form , I was by no means equally ready to produce them . It generally argues some degree of natural impotence of mind , or some want of knowledge of the world , 20 to hazard plans of government except from a seat ...
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... sort of 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 ...
... sort of 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 ...
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... existence depended on the powerful and unremitted assertion of that claim . All 30 Protestantism , even the most cold and passive , is a sort of dissent . But the religion most prevalent in our northern ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA . 21.
... existence depended on the powerful and unremitted assertion of that claim . All 30 Protestantism , even the most cold and passive , is a sort of dissent . But the religion most prevalent in our northern ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA . 21.
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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.