Orations and Arguments by English and American StatesmenCornelius Beach Bradley Allyn and Bacon, 1894 - 378 страници |
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... given and granted by Parliament , though the said Colonies and Plantations have not their Knights and Bur- gesses in the said High Court of Parliament , of their own election , to represent the condition of their country ; by lack ...
... given and granted by Parliament , though the said Colonies and Plantations have not their Knights and Bur- gesses in the said High Court of Parliament , of their own election , to represent the condition of their country ; by lack ...
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... given by that noble person to the Colonies of a resolution to lay no more taxes on them an admission that taxes would touch and grieve them ? Is not the Resolution of the noble lord in the blue ribbon , now standing on your Journals ...
... given by that noble person to the Colonies of a resolution to lay no more taxes on them an admission that taxes would touch and grieve them ? Is not the Resolution of the noble lord in the blue ribbon , now standing on your Journals ...
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... that the money then voted was as an encouragement to the Colonies to exert themselves with vigor . It will not be necessary to go through all the testimonies which your own records have given to the truth of my 54 Burke .
... that the money then voted was as an encouragement to the Colonies to exert themselves with vigor . It will not be necessary to go through all the testimonies which your own records have given to the truth of my 54 Burke .
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... given as reward and encouragement . Reward is not bestowed for acts that are unlawful ; and encouragement is not held out to things that deserve reprehension . My Resolution there- 20 fore does nothing more than collect into one ...
... given as reward and encouragement . Reward is not bestowed for acts that are unlawful ; and encouragement is not held out to things that deserve reprehension . My Resolution there- 20 fore does nothing more than collect into one ...
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... given for sinking the debt did not prove quite so ample as both the Colo- nies and he expected . The calculation was too sanguine ; 10 the reduction was not completed till some years after , and at different times in different Colonies ...
... given for sinking the debt did not prove quite so ample as both the Colo- nies and he expected . The calculation was too sanguine ; 10 the reduction was not completed till some years after , and at different times in different Colonies ...
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Страница 223 - ... as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no farther valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights,...
Страница 251 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Страница 251 - States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto, no such miserable interrogatory as
Страница 79 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Страница 15 - 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 108 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Страница 251 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Страница 73 - ... directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master...
Страница 108 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Страница 251 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...