Burke's Speech on American TaxationGinn, 1905 - 88 páginas |
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... tion of the financial condition of the country , which the pre- vious minister , Grenville , had left in great disorder . Grenville had attempted to increase the resources of the state by impos- ing a tax on all legal papers in the ...
... tion of the financial condition of the country , which the pre- vious minister , Grenville , had left in great disorder . Grenville had attempted to increase the resources of the state by impos- ing a tax on all legal papers in the ...
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... tion to the colonial assemblies , since no one could think of an actual representation of America in Parliament at the distance of three thousand miles . The two speeches were equally diverse in their spirit . The first was in the ...
... tion to the colonial assemblies , since no one could think of an actual representation of America in Parliament at the distance of three thousand miles . The two speeches were equally diverse in their spirit . The first was in the ...
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... tion , for he loved a manly , moral , regulated liberty , and not the unrestricted freedom or anarchy which the French de- manded . He declared that , although the sovereignty had origi- nated with the people , they had granted it to an ...
... tion , for he loved a manly , moral , regulated liberty , and not the unrestricted freedom or anarchy which the French de- manded . He declared that , although the sovereignty had origi- nated with the people , they had granted it to an ...
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... tion . The excesses of the French Assembly in destroying even what was good in the government was not surprising when the composition of the National Assembly was considered . The members had little political experience , and , carried ...
... tion . The excesses of the French Assembly in destroying even what was good in the government was not surprising when the composition of the National Assembly was considered . The members had little political experience , and , carried ...
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... tion is to make an outline or a brief of it . An argument is seldom followed or understood by a student , unless he attempts to state it in his own words . He should sum up the meaning of each paragraph in a single sentence , and then ...
... tion is to make an outline or a brief of it . An argument is seldom followed or understood by a student , unless he attempts to state it in his own words . He should sum up the meaning of each paragraph in a single sentence , and then ...
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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.