Speech on Conciliation with AmericaScott, Foresman, 1919 - 319 páginas |
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... dignity to its fountain , and raise him to a higher rank of peerage , whilst he enriched the family with a new one - if , amidst these bright and happy scenes of domestic honor and prosperity , that angel should have drawn up the ...
... dignity to its fountain , and raise him to a higher rank of peerage , whilst he enriched the family with a new one - if , amidst these bright and happy scenes of domestic honor and prosperity , that angel should have drawn up the ...
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... dignity , and charged with the safety of their fellow - citizens upon the very same title that I am . I really think that for wise men this is not judicious , for sober men not decent , for minds tinctured with humanity not mild and ...
... dignity , and charged with the safety of their fellow - citizens upon the very same title that I am . I really think that for wise men this is not judicious , for sober men not decent , for minds tinctured with humanity not mild and ...
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... dignity of relax- ing in the exercise of an odious claim , because you have your evidence - room full of titles , and your magazines stuffed with arms to enforce them ? What signify all those titles and all those arms ? Of what avail ...
... dignity of relax- ing in the exercise of an odious claim , because you have your evidence - room full of titles , and your magazines stuffed with arms to enforce them ? What signify all those titles and all those arms ? Of what avail ...
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... necessary - and not more necessary for the satisfaction of the colonies than for the dignity and consistency of our own future pro- ceedings . 71. I have taken a very incorrect measure of the 34 BURKE'S SPEECH ON CONCILIATION.
... necessary - and not more necessary for the satisfaction of the colonies than for the dignity and consistency of our own future pro- ceedings . 71. I have taken a very incorrect measure of the 34 BURKE'S SPEECH ON CONCILIATION.
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... dignity of human nature . None of us who would not risk his life rather than fall under a government purely arbitrary . But although there are some amongst us who think our Constitution wants many improvements to make it a complete sys ...
... dignity of human nature . None of us who would not risk his life rather than fall under a government purely arbitrary . But although there are some amongst us who think our Constitution wants many improvements to make it a complete sys ...
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administration Amer America American Revolution assemblies authority British Burke Burke's cause Charles Fox CHARLES JAMES FOX Chester civil colonies colonists commerce concession confidence Constitution court crown declared despotism dignity duty EDMUND BURKE effect empire England English freedom Englishmen faction favor feel force gentlemen George Grenville George III George the Third give grant honorable gentleman Horace Walpole House of Commons idea judge justice King King's king's men kingdom liberty Lord Chatham Lord Hillsborough Lord North Majesty means measure ment mind ministers ministry nation nature never noble lord obedience object opinion oppressive paragraph Parliament parliamentary party peace person Pitt political present principle privileges provinces quarrel reason rebellion repeal resolution revenue scheme slaves spirit Stamp Act taxation taxes temper things tion touched and grieved trade laws vote Wales Whig whilst whole wish
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Página 125 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.
Página 255 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
Página 58 - 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 hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Página 61 - Americans a love of freedom is the predominating feature, which marks and distinguishes the whole ; and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Página 125 - ... of the world. Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire. Do not entertain so weak an imagination, as that your registers and your bonds, your affidavits and your sufferances, your cockets and your clearances, are what form the great securities of your commerce.
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.
Página 254 - You may swell every expense and every effort still more extravagantly ; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles...
Página 66 - Blackstone's <Commentaries' in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law, and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Página 126 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us — a sort of people 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.
Página 60 - These, Sir, are my reasons for not entertaining that high opinion of untried force, by which many gentlemen, for whose sentiments in other particulars I have great respect, seem to be so greatly captivated. But there is still...