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... House of Commons as member for Wendover , and soon afterwards voted for the repeal of the Stamp Act , and for the Declaratory Act . But in one year and twenty days the Rockingham ministry was dismissed 1 Boswell's Life of Johnson ...
... House of Commons as member for Wendover , and soon afterwards voted for the repeal of the Stamp Act , and for the Declaratory Act . But in one year and twenty days the Rockingham ministry was dismissed 1 Boswell's Life of Johnson ...
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... House of Commons for libel . The rest of his life Burke devoted to prosecuting Warren Hastings , to opposing the influence of the French Revolution , and to aiding the Irish Catholics . He found time to write letters on practical ...
... House of Commons for libel . The rest of his life Burke devoted to prosecuting Warren Hastings , to opposing the influence of the French Revolution , and to aiding the Irish Catholics . He found time to write letters on practical ...
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... House of Lords by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale . Deeply wounded , Burke wrote A Letter to a Noble Lord , a defense of his pensions and a review of his life . In the summer of 1797 Burke died , and according to his own ...
... House of Lords by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale . Deeply wounded , Burke wrote A Letter to a Noble Lord , a defense of his pensions and a review of his life . In the summer of 1797 Burke died , and according to his own ...
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... mob in London and many houses burned . 1 Burke's Correspondence , London , 1844 , III , 419 . 2 Froude's History of Ireland , New York , 1874 , II , 213 . с In 1782 Burke again pleaded against the reënactment of xvi INTRODUCTION.
... mob in London and many houses burned . 1 Burke's Correspondence , London , 1844 , III , 419 . 2 Froude's History of Ireland , New York , 1874 , II , 213 . с In 1782 Burke again pleaded against the reënactment of xvi INTRODUCTION.
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... House of Commons on April 19 , 1774 , that this tax be repealed . This motion was discussed by five members , and then supported by Burke in his speech on American Taxation . A few men spoke briefly in favor of the bill ; one opponent ...
... House of Commons on April 19 , 1774 , that this tax be repealed . This motion was discussed by five members , and then supported by Burke in his speech on American Taxation . A few men spoke briefly in favor of the bill ; one opponent ...
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Act of Navigation affairs American revenue American Taxation ancient appointed assemblies authority bill Britain British Charles Townshend Chatham colonies colonists commerce committee concession Conciliation with America debate Declaratory Act declared Dowdeswell duties Earl East India Company Edmund Burke effect empire enforced England Essay expedient exported force French give Goodrich Governor Bernard grant Grenville ground honorable gentleman hope House of Commons imposed Ireland Irish King laws letter liberty Lord Chatham Lord Hillsborough Lord North Lord Rockingham Macaulay's measures ment ministers mischief monopoly never noble lord obeyed object opposition Parliament parliamentary party Payne peace Pitt political preamble principle provinces question raise a revenue reason repeal resolutions revenue in America Rockingham ministry Rose Fuller Samuel Johnson scheme Secretary session spirit Stamp Act STANDARD ENGLISH CLASSICS tax America things tion trade violent voted Whigs whole William Dowdeswell
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Página 53 - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies : that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure...
Página 31 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences, — a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all tho other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Página 55 - For even then, Sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and for his hour became lord of the ascendant.
Página 54 - ... treacherous friends and open enemies : that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on. The colleagues whom he had assorted at the same boards, stared at each other, and were obliged to ask, ' Sir, your name ? Sir, you have the advantage of me — Mr. Such-a-one — I beg a thousand pardons.
Página 64 - When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance of British liberty ; are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength ? our opprobrium for their glory ; and the slough of slavery, which we are not able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? If this be the case, ask yourselves this question, Will they be content in such a state of slavery?
Página 65 - The parliament of Great Britain sits at the head of her extensive empire in two capacities : one as the local legislature of this island, providing for all things at home, immediately, and by no other instrument than the executive power. — The other, and I think her nobler capacity, is what I call her imperial character ; in which, as from the throne of heaven, she superintends all the several inferior legislatures, and guides and controls them all, without annihilating any.
Página 55 - If he had not so great a stock, as some have had who flourished formerly, of knowledge long treasured up, he knew better by far, than any man I ever was acquainted with, how to bring together, within a short time, all that was necessary to establish, to illustrate, and to decorate that side of the question he supported. He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully. He particularly excelled in a most luminous explanation and display of his subject.
Página 45 - Hope elevated and joy brightened his crest. I stood near him; and his face, to use the expression of the scripture of the first martyr, " his face was as if it had been the face of an angel.
Página 57 - The whole body of courtiers drove him onward. They always talked as if the king stood in a sort of humiliated state, until something of the kind should be done.
Página 63 - But if, intemperately, unwisely, fatally, you sophisticate and poison the very source of government, by urging subtle deductions, and consequences odious to those you govern, from the unlimited and illimitable nature of supreme sovereignty, you will teach them by these means to call that sovereignty itself in question.