Speech on Conciliation with AmericaH. Holt and Company, 1901 - 122 páginas |
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... as a masterpiece of oratory , its power and beauty ought to be refracted as little as possible by other considerations . For aid in the reduction of references I am indebted to the editions of Professors Cook and Lamont . For the iii.
... as a masterpiece of oratory , its power and beauty ought to be refracted as little as possible by other considerations . For aid in the reduction of references I am indebted to the editions of Professors Cook and Lamont . For the iii.
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... , its power and beauty ought to be refracted as little as possible by other considerations . For aid in the reduction of references I am indebted to Throughout the struggle of John Wilkes for his justly won 111 PREFACE. ...
... , its power and beauty ought to be refracted as little as possible by other considerations . For aid in the reduction of references I am indebted to Throughout the struggle of John Wilkes for his justly won 111 PREFACE. ...
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... considerations blinded him to one half the truth . But in regard to the common people of Eng- land , the struggling peasants of Ireland , the colonists of America , his position was uniformly sympathetic . He knew their condition and he ...
... considerations blinded him to one half the truth . But in regard to the common people of Eng- land , the struggling peasants of Ireland , the colonists of America , his position was uniformly sympathetic . He knew their condition and he ...
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... consideration of the present and the growing numbers in the front of our deliberation ; be- 25 cause , Sir , this consideration will make it evident to a blunter discernment than yours , that no partial , narrow , contracted , pinched ...
... consideration of the present and the growing numbers in the front of our deliberation ; be- 25 cause , Sir , this consideration will make it evident to a blunter discernment than yours , that no partial , narrow , contracted , pinched ...
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... consideration . It is good for us to be here . We stand where we have an immense view of 15 what is , and what is past . Clouds , indeed , and dark- ness rest upon the future . Let us , however , before we descend from this noble ...
... consideration . It is good for us to be here . We stand where we have an immense view of 15 what is , and what is past . Clouds , indeed , and dark- ness rest upon the future . Let us , however , before we descend from this noble ...
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Act of Navigation acts of Parliament America ancient argument assemblies authority British Burke Burke's style cause Chester circumstances colonies colonies and plantations colonists commerce concession consider County Palatine court crown Davis Strait duties EDMUND BURKE empire England experience export fact Falkland Island favor force freedom give grand penal bill grant House idea imagination imposition interest Ireland judge justice King knights and burgesses litotes Lord Bathurst Lord North Lord Rockingham matter means ment mind mode nation nature noble lord obedience object opinion oppressed oration paragraph Parlia Parliament parliamentary peace political preamble present Majesty principle privileges proper to repeal proposed proposition provinces quarrel question reason reign religion repeal an act resolution revenue salutary neglect Serbonian bog slaves Speech on Conciliation spirit of liberty Stamp Act taxation taxes things thought tion touched and grieved trade laws true truth Wales Whigs whole
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Página xiii - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Página 78 - ... 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...
Página 14 - 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.
Página 76 - 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. 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 xxiii - The temper and character which prevail in our colonies are, I am afraid, unalterable by any human art. We cannot, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates.
Página 14 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Página 22 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Página 21 - 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. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Página 77 - 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 33 - ... 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.