Speech on Conciliation with AmericaAmerican Book Company, 1904 - 164 páginas |
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... course at this time has generally been regarded as the great mistake of his political career . Early in 1767 the landed gentry secured the passage of an act reducing the land tax . It was generally assumed that the deficiency of revenue ...
... course at this time has generally been regarded as the great mistake of his political career . Early in 1767 the landed gentry secured the passage of an act reducing the land tax . It was generally assumed that the deficiency of revenue ...
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... course of the common law . For passing these resolutions the House was dissolved , but the members met and adopted a non - importation agreement . It was evident that the second attempt to tax America had failed . In April , 1769 ...
... course of the common law . For passing these resolutions the House was dissolved , but the members met and adopted a non - importation agreement . It was evident that the second attempt to tax America had failed . In April , 1769 ...
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... course of Parliament were greatly increased by the high - handed proceedings in the Wilkes case . John Wilkes , a " worthless demagogue , ” though a member of the House of Commons , had published in No. 45 of the North Briton a severe ...
... course of Parliament were greatly increased by the high - handed proceedings in the Wilkes case . John Wilkes , a " worthless demagogue , ” though a member of the House of Commons , had published in No. 45 of the North Briton a severe ...
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... the Present Discontents , published in 1770 , reviewed in a masterly way the whole course of policy which had 1 Morley , Burke , p . 62 . In brought about the existing disordered conditions . In 1771 24 Burke's Speech on Conciliation.
... the Present Discontents , published in 1770 , reviewed in a masterly way the whole course of policy which had 1 Morley , Burke , p . 62 . In brought about the existing disordered conditions . In 1771 24 Burke's Speech on Conciliation.
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... course . In February , 1778 , however , he made a great speech against the employment of Indians in the war with the colonies . In 1780 he championed the cause of economical reform , with the object not only of reducing expenditures ...
... course . In February , 1778 , however , he made a great speech against the employment of Indians in the war with the colonies . In 1780 he championed the cause of economical reform , with the object not only of reducing expenditures ...
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Página 75 - ... 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 81 - 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 54 - ... 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 126 - ... 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 149 - 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 124 - 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 64 - 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 54 - 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 124 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.
Página 125 - Do you imagine, then, that it is the Land Tax Act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the Committee of Supply which gives you your army? or that it is the Mutiny Bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No! surely no! 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...