Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with Biographical Notices, and a PrefaceCharles Phillips W. Reynolds, 1819 - 435 páginas |
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... trade and sustenance of America , is to be returned to us from the other House * . I do confess , I could not help looking on this event as a fortunate omen . I look upon it as a sort of providential favour ; by which we are put once ...
... trade and sustenance of America , is to be returned to us from the other House * . I do confess , I could not help looking on this event as a fortunate omen . I look upon it as a sort of providential favour ; by which we are put once ...
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... trade of this country to its co- lonies alone , as it stood in 1772 , compared with the whole trade of England to all parts of the world ( the colonies included ) in the year 1704. They are from good vouchers ; the latter period from ...
... trade of this country to its co- lonies alone , as it stood in 1772 , compared with the whole trade of England to all parts of the world ( the colonies included ) in the year 1704. They are from good vouchers ; the latter period from ...
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... trade to the colonies , taken on the export side , at the beginning of this century , that is , in the year 1704 ... trade from Scot- land , which had in 1704 no existence 364,000 6,022,132 From five hundred and odd thousand , it has ...
... trade to the colonies , taken on the export side , at the beginning of this century , that is , in the year 1704 ... trade from Scot- land , which had in 1704 no existence 364,000 6,022,132 From five hundred and odd thousand , it has ...
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... trade an unnatural protuberance , that has drawn the juices from the rest of the body ? The reverse . It is the very food that has nourished every other part into its present magnitude . Our general trade has been greatly augmented ...
... trade an unnatural protuberance , that has drawn the juices from the rest of the body ? The reverse . It is the very food that has nourished every other part into its present magnitude . Our general trade has been greatly augmented ...
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... trade as the Ame- ricans , the noble lord ( North ) in the blue ribband shall tell you , that the restraints on trade are futile and useless ; of no advantage to us , and of no burthen to those on whom they are imposed ; that the trade ...
... trade as the Ame- ricans , the noble lord ( North ) in the blue ribband shall tell you , that the restraints on trade are futile and useless ; of no advantage to us , and of no burthen to those on whom they are imposed ; that the trade ...
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Página 74 - 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 minds go ill together.
Página 17 - 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 17 - 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 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 72 - 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. But let it be once understood...
Página 73 - 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 73 - 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. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have ; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience.
Página 21 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered, in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound.
Página 39 - I am restoring tranquillity ; and the general character and situation of a people must determine what sort of government is fitted for them.
Página 17 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy; and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem aud admiration.
Página 73 - Do not dream that your letters of office, and your instructions, and your suspending clauses, are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole.