Works, Volumen 2Little, Brown, and Company, 1865 |
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... interests in one connected view . They have taken things by bits and scraps , some at one time . and one pretence , and some at another , just as they pressed , without any sort of regard to their relations or dependencies . They never ...
... interests in one connected view . They have taken things by bits and scraps , some at one time . and one pretence , and some at another , just as they pressed , without any sort of regard to their relations or dependencies . They never ...
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... interest , merely for the sake of insulting your colonies ? No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could bear an imposition of three - pence . But no commodity will bear three- pence , or will bear a penny , when the general feel ...
... interest , merely for the sake of insulting your colonies ? No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could bear an imposition of three - pence . But no commodity will bear three- pence , or will bear a penny , when the general feel ...
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... interest , your equity , and every idea of your policy . Show the thing you con- tend for to be reason , show it to be common sense , show it to be the means of attaining some useful end , and then I am content to allow it 18 SPEECH ON ...
... interest , your equity , and every idea of your policy . Show the thing you con- tend for to be reason , show it to be common sense , show it to be the means of attaining some useful end , and then I am content to allow it 18 SPEECH ON ...
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... interest of this empire , crammed into your lobbies , with a trembling and anxious expectation , waited , almost to a winter's return of light , their fate from your resolutions . When at length you had de- termined in their favor , and ...
... interest of this empire , crammed into your lobbies , with a trembling and anxious expectation , waited , almost to a winter's return of light , their fate from your resolutions . When at length you had de- termined in their favor , and ...
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... interest . If you appre- hend that on a concession you shall be pushed by metaphysical process to the extreme lines , and ar- gued out of your whole authority , my advice is this : ― - oppose the an- when you have recovered your old 70 ...
... interest . If you appre- hend that on a concession you shall be pushed by metaphysical process to the extreme lines , and ar- gued out of your whole authority , my advice is this : ― - oppose the an- when you have recovered your old 70 ...
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Página 181 - 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 minds go ill together.
Página 180 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Página 96 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates...
Página 126 - The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.
Página 95 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Página 109 - I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us. Because after all our struggle, whether we will or not, we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances, and not according to our...
Página 133 - The power inadequate to all other things is often more than sufficient for this. I do not look on the direct and immediate power of the colonies to resist our violence as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us, it seems to my poor understanding a little preposterous to make them unserviceable, in order to keep them obedient.
Página 140 - 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.
Página 107 - ... of such province or colony, and disposable by Parliament,) and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the civil government and the administration of justice in such province or colony, it will be proper, if such proposal shall be approved by his Majesty...
Página 184 - That it may be proper to repeal an act, made in the seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for granting certain duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America...