Speech on Conciliation with AmericaGinn, 1897 - 152 страници |
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... opinion that a member speaks the language of truth and sincerity , and that he is not ready to take up or lay down a great political system for the convenience of an hour , that he is in Parliament to support his opinion of the public ...
... opinion that a member speaks the language of truth and sincerity , and that he is not ready to take up or lay down a great political system for the convenience of an hour , that he is in Parliament to support his opinion of the public ...
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... opinions , and in ripened political wisdom . He virtually summed up everything said on America since he had entered Parliament ; he refuted every opposing argument worth serious consideration ; and he put every favorable argument in its ...
... opinions , and in ripened political wisdom . He virtually summed up everything said on America since he had entered Parliament ; he refuted every opposing argument worth serious consideration ; and he put every favorable argument in its ...
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... opinions in Reflec- tions on the Revolution in France , his first publication on the subject . The book had , for that day , an enormous sale , and created a profound sensation throughout England , and indeed all Europe . It divided ...
... opinions in Reflec- tions on the Revolution in France , his first publication on the subject . The book had , for that day , an enormous sale , and created a profound sensation throughout England , and indeed all Europe . It divided ...
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... opinions were losing real value , his influence was strengthening . the events which he had predicted came to pass one by one , the laughter of his enemies turned to alarm ; and finally , when Louis the Sixteenth was executed in 1793 ...
... opinions were losing real value , his influence was strengthening . the events which he had predicted came to pass one by one , the laughter of his enemies turned to alarm ; and finally , when Louis the Sixteenth was executed in 1793 ...
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... opinion as that of a man who knew everything to be known about the matter ; they could not help feeling with him that " oppression in Ben- gal was the same thing as oppression in the streets of London . " 1 Essay on Warren Hastings ...
... opinion as that of a man who knew everything to be known about the matter ; they could not help feeling with him that " oppression in Ben- gal was the same thing as oppression in the streets of London . " 1 Essay on Warren Hastings ...
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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.
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 17 - 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 87 - AND after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, 2 And was transfigured before them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light 3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Страница 37 - 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 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...
Страница 16 - Straits — while 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 resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Страница 72 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Страница 73 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.