Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ. M. Dent & Company, 1911 - 295 páginas |
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... mode of deliberation he recommends is diametrically opposite to every rule of reason and every principle of good sense established amongst mankind . For that sense and that reason I have always understood absolutely to prescribe ...
... mode of deliberation he recommends is diametrically opposite to every rule of reason and every principle of good sense established amongst mankind . For that sense and that reason I have always understood absolutely to prescribe ...
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... mode of using it was absolutely new in policy and practice . Sir , they who are friends to the schemes of American revenue say that the commercial restraint is full as hard a law for America to live under . I think so too . I think it ...
... mode of using it was absolutely new in policy and practice . Sir , they who are friends to the schemes of American revenue say that the commercial restraint is full as hard a law for America to live under . I think so too . I think it ...
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... mode of taxation as the ground of an Act of Parliament . But he never could have proposed that they should tax themselves on requisition , which is the assertion of the day . Indeed , Mr. Grenville well knew that the colony agents could ...
... mode of taxation as the ground of an Act of Parliament . But he never could have proposed that they should tax themselves on requisition , which is the assertion of the day . Indeed , Mr. Grenville well knew that the colony agents could ...
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... mode of parliamentary taxation . What was the consequence ? They were suppressed , they were put under the table , not- withstanding an order of council to the contrary , by the Ministry which composed the very council that had made the ...
... mode of parliamentary taxation . What was the consequence ? They were suppressed , they were put under the table , not- withstanding an order of council to the contrary , by the Ministry which composed the very council that had made the ...
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... mode has been chicaned upon , but it was substantially obeyed ; and much better obeyed than I fear the parliamentary requisition of this session will be , though enforced by all your rigour and backed with all your power . In a word ...
... mode has been chicaned upon , but it was substantially obeyed ; and much better obeyed than I fear the parliamentary requisition of this session will be , though enforced by all your rigour and backed with all your power . In a word ...
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Act of Navigation Act of Parliament administration affairs America ancient assemblies authority Britain British British empire Burke burthen cause civil colonies colonists commerce concession conduct consider constitution court crown Declaratory Act declared dignity dispute dominions duty EDMUND BURKE effect empire England English experience export favour feel freedom friends gentlemen give grant Grenville happy honourable gentleman hope House of Commons HUGH LAW idea interest Ireland justice kingdom laws liberty Lord Chatham Lord Hillsborough Lord North Majesty Majesty's means measures members of parliament ment minds ministers Ministry mischief mode nation nature never noble lord obedience object opinion Parliament parliamentary peace person political preamble present principles privileges proposed provinces reason regulations repeal resolution revenue scheme sort spirit Stamp Act sure taxation taxes temper things thought tion trade true virtue whilst whole wholly wish
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Página iv - WILL BE PLEASED TO SEND FREELY TO ALL APPLICANTS A LIST OF THE PUBLISHED AND PROJECTED VOLUMES...
Página 143 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Página xiii - 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 110 - 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 89 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Página 13 - 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 109 - Parliament in which they are not represented. If you mean to satisfy them at all, you must satisfy them with regard to this complaint. If you mean to please any people, you must give them the boon which they ask ; not what you may think better for them, but of a kind totally different.
Página 95 - All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance ; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Página 93 - Most of the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates, or on the balance among the several orders of the state. The question of money was not with them so immediate. But in England it was otherwise. On this point of taxes the ablest pens and most eloquent tongues have been exercised; the greatest spirits have acted and suffered.
Página 94 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered, in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound.