Burke's Speech on American TaxationGinn, 1905 - 88 páginas |
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... direct government of India was transferred from the company to the crown . The first act of the board of control was to return the £ 2,000,000 which the Nabob of Arcot said he had borrowed from employees of the company . Fox and Burke ...
... direct government of India was transferred from the company to the crown . The first act of the board of control was to return the £ 2,000,000 which the Nabob of Arcot said he had borrowed from employees of the company . Fox and Burke ...
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... direct given to it by the provisionary part of the act ; if that can be called provisionary which makes no provision . I should be afraid to express myself in this manner , especially in the face 20 of such a formidable array of ability ...
... direct given to it by the provisionary part of the act ; if that can be called provisionary which makes no provision . I should be afraid to express myself in this manner , especially in the face 20 of such a formidable array of ability ...
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... direct challenges and oblique reflections to say some- thing on the historical part . I shall therefore , Sir , open myself fully on that important and delicate subject ; not for the sake 15 of telling you a long story ( which , I know ...
... direct challenges and oblique reflections to say some- thing on the historical part . I shall therefore , Sir , open myself fully on that important and delicate subject ; not for the sake 15 of telling you a long story ( which , I know ...
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... direct attack . They were , it is true , as yet novices ; as yet unaccustomed to direct attacks upon any of the rights of Par- liament . The duties were port duties , like those they had been accustomed to bear ; with this difference ...
... direct attack . They were , it is true , as yet novices ; as yet unaccustomed to direct attacks upon any of the rights of Par- liament . The duties were port duties , like those they had been accustomed to bear ; with this difference ...
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... direct violation of treaties and public law . On the other , the Act of 15 Navigation and all the corps of trade laws were drawn up in array against it . The first step the noble lord took , was to have the opinion of his excellent ...
... direct violation of treaties and public law . On the other , the Act of 15 Navigation and all the corps of trade laws were drawn up in array against it . The first step the noble lord took , was to have the opinion of his excellent ...
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Act of Navigation affairs American revenue American Taxation appointed assemblies authority bill Boston Britain British Burke's cause Charles Townshend Chatham colonists commerce concession Conciliation with America debate Declaratory Act declared duties Earl East India Company Edmund Burke effect empire enforced England Essay expedient exported force French friends give Goodrich Governor Bernard granted Grenville ground honorable gentleman hope House of Commons important imposed Ireland Irish King King's laws letter liberty Lord Chatham Lord Hillsborough Lord North Lord Rockingham measures ment ministers mischief monopoly Navigation Act never noble lord obeyed object opposition pamphlet Parliament parliamentary party passed Payne peace Pitt political preamble provinces question raise a revenue reason revenue act revenue in America Revolution Rockingham ministry Rose Fuller scheme Secretary session spirit Stamp Act STANDARD ENGLISH CLASSICS things thought tion trade violent vote 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 14 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.
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.