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On the nineteenth of April , 1774 , while the proposed repeal of the tea duty was
under discussion , Burke , in a great speech on American Taxation , urged the
repeal of the duty . A repeal would not , he argued , lead to demands from the ...
On the nineteenth of April , 1774 , while the proposed repeal of the tea duty was
under discussion , Burke , in a great speech on American Taxation , urged the
repeal of the duty . A repeal would not , he argued , lead to demands from the ...
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THE SPEECH ON CONCILIATION The speech on Conciliation , following so
soon after the speech on American taxation , might naturally be expected to
repeat much of what had been already said . On the contrary , however , it is a
new and ...
THE SPEECH ON CONCILIATION The speech on Conciliation , following so
soon after the speech on American taxation , might naturally be expected to
repeat much of what had been already said . On the contrary , however , it is a
new and ...
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... which prevails in the colonies can be dealt with in but three ways : first ,
changing the spirit by removing its causes ; second , prosecuting it as criminal ;
and third , yielding to it as necessary , that is , giving up the pretended right of
taxation .
... which prevails in the colonies can be dealt with in but three ways : first ,
changing the spirit by removing its causes ; second , prosecuting it as criminal ;
and third , yielding to it as necessary , that is , giving up the pretended right of
taxation .
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It has even shot a good deal beyond that mark , and has admitted that the
complaints of our former 10 mode of exerting the right of taxation were not wholly
unfounded . That right thus exerted is allowed to have something reprehensible
in it ...
It has even shot a good deal beyond that mark , and has admitted that the
complaints of our former 10 mode of exerting the right of taxation were not wholly
unfounded . That right thus exerted is allowed to have something reprehensible
in it ...
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Sir , I think you must perceive that I am resolved this day to have nothing at all to
do with the question of the right of taxation . Some gentlemen startle , but it 10 is
true ; I put it totally out of the question . It is less than nothing in my consideration .
Sir , I think you must perceive that I am resolved this day to have nothing at all to
do with the question of the right of taxation . Some gentlemen startle , but it 10 is
true ; I put it totally out of the question . It is less than nothing in my consideration .
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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...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Speech on Conciliation with America Gateway series of English texts Gateway series |
| Autor | Edmund Burke |
| Editor | William MacDonald |
| Editor | American Book Company, 1904 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 14 Mar 2007 |
| N.º de páginas | 164 páginas |
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