Burke's Speech on Conciliation with AmericaMacmillan Company, 1899 - 124 páginas |
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Acts of Parliament Addison affairs America American Revolution ancient Assembly authority Ballitore bill British Burke Burke's burthen cause Chester civil Colonies and Plantations Colonists confess Constitution Court Crown declared duties EDMUND BURKE effect empire England export fact favor force freedom friends give grant grievance honor House of Commons ideas India Ireland Johnson judge justice king legislature less liberty Lord North Lord Rockingham Lords of Trade Majesty mean ment methods mind mode nation nature noble lord obedience object opinion Parlia Parliament Parliamentary party peace perhaps political ports preamble principle privileges proposed proposition provinces quarrel reason regulating repeal Resolution revenue Roger de Coverley salutary neglect seemed Silas Marner slaves sort Speech on Conciliation spirit Stamp Act style sure taxation taxes things thought tion touched and grieved trade laws true Vicar of Wakefield Wales Warren Hastings Welsh Whigs whilst whole wholly ΙΟ
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Página 54 - 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 33 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Página 23 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Página 107 - English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English constitution which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies, every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Página 19 - Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...
Página 31 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Página 22 - 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.
Página 107 - 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 32 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful, and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the Congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Página 23 - America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who understand the military art will of course have some predilection for it. Those who wield the thunder of the state may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms.