Speech on Conciliation with AmericaAmerican Book Company, 1904 - 164 páginas |
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... popular hero , was chosen an alderman of London . These events , clearly indicative of the arbitrary temper of Parliament and king , were closely followed in America , where they coincided with the opposition to the Town- shend acts ...
... popular hero , was chosen an alderman of London . These events , clearly indicative of the arbitrary temper of Parliament and king , were closely followed in America , where they coincided with the opposition to the Town- shend acts ...
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... popular in an high degree : some are merely popular ; in all the popular representative is the most weighty ; and this share of the people in their ordi- nary government never fails to inspire them with lofty sentiments and with a ...
... popular in an high degree : some are merely popular ; in all the popular representative is the most weighty ; and this share of the people in their ordi- nary government never fails to inspire them with lofty sentiments and with a ...
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... popular devotion , were so many books as those on the law ex- ported to the plantations . The colonists have now fallen 10 into the way of printing them for their own use . I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Com ...
... popular devotion , were so many books as those on the law ex- ported to the plantations . The colonists have now fallen 10 into the way of printing them for their own use . I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Com ...
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... popular 25 part of the colony constitution derived all its activity , and its first vital movement , from the pleasure of the crown . We thought , Sir , that the utmost which the discontented colonists could do was to disturb authority ...
... popular 25 part of the colony constitution derived all its activity , and its first vital movement , from the pleasure of the crown . We thought , Sir , that the utmost which the discontented colonists could do was to disturb authority ...
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... popular assemblies in which these lawyers sit . The army , by which we must govern in their place , would be far more chargeable to us ; not quite so effectual ; and perhaps in the end full as difficult to be kept in obedience . With ...
... popular assemblies in which these lawyers sit . The army , by which we must govern in their place , would be far more chargeable to us ; not quite so effectual ; and perhaps in the end full as difficult to be kept in obedience . With ...
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Acts of Trade American Book Company ancient assemblies authority bill Boston Boston Port Act Britain British BROWN UNIVERSITY Burke's Charles Townshend Chester CINCINNATI CHICAGO colonial agents colonies and plantations colonists commerce committee concession Congress Constitution council court crown declared duties edition empire England English export favor freedom give governor granted Grenville HENRY VAN DYKE High Schools House of Commons ideas importance Ireland judges JULIUS CÆSAR justice king liberty Lord North Lords of Trade Majesty Majesty's Massachusetts Government Act ment ministry mode mother country nature noble lord obedience object opinion Parlia Parliament to tax peace political present principle privileges Professor proper to repeal proposed proposition provinces Quartering Act reason reign resolution right of Parliament slaves Speech on Conciliation spirit Stamp Act Stamp Act Congress tax the colonies taxation text-book things tion touched and grieved Townshend University W. L. Cross Wales Webster's whole
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Página 47 - ... 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 36 - 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 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 26 - ... 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. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the poles.
Página 98 - ... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be 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 principles, which, in the opinion of such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little...
Página 121 - British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed.
Página 96 - 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 36 - Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire; and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies, the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities.
Página 26 - 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. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace...
Página 97 - It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.