Burke's Speech on Conciliation with AmericaMacmillan Company, 1906 |
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... colonies , a board was ap- pointed , called the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations . The royal governors found in this board ready sympathizers , and were not slow to report their grievances , and to insist upon more ...
... colonies , a board was ap- pointed , called the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations . The royal governors found in this board ready sympathizers , and were not slow to report their grievances , and to insist upon more ...
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... colonies ; and , although more than half of the Navigation Acts were passed by Whig governments , the leaders had known how to wink at the violation of nearly all of them . Immediately after the close of the French war , and after ...
... colonies ; and , although more than half of the Navigation Acts were passed by Whig governments , the leaders had known how to wink at the violation of nearly all of them . Immediately after the close of the French war , and after ...
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... colonies , marks the beginning of the policy of George III . which , had it been suc- cessful , would have made him the ruler of an absolute instead of a limited monarchy . He hated the Tories only less than the Whigs , and when he ...
... colonies , marks the beginning of the policy of George III . which , had it been suc- cessful , would have made him the ruler of an absolute instead of a limited monarchy . He hated the Tories only less than the Whigs , and when he ...
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... colonies was revived . Pitt lay ill , and could take no part in the proposed measure . Through the influence of other members of his party , -notably Townshend , a series of acts were passed , imposing duties on several exports to ...
... colonies was revived . Pitt lay ill , and could take no part in the proposed measure . Through the influence of other members of his party , -notably Townshend , a series of acts were passed , imposing duties on several exports to ...
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... colonies were as a unit in their support of Massachu- setts . The Regulating Act was set at defiance , public officers in the king's service were forced to resign , town meetings were held , and preparations for war were xiv INTRODUCTION.
... colonies were as a unit in their support of Massachu- setts . The Regulating Act was set at defiance , public officers in the king's service were forced to resign , town meetings were held , and preparations for war were xiv INTRODUCTION.
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Página 53 - 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.
Página 22 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their toils. 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...
Página 30 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
Página 21 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis's 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.
Página 31 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful, and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the Congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Página 106 - England worship freedom they will turn their faces towards you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience. Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.
Página 47 - ... which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Página 91 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences ; we give and take ; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Página 105 - 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.
Página 106 - It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly.