Speech on Conciliation with AmericaScott, Foresman, 1919 - 319 páginas |
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... Commons , and until he had inflamed against each other his subjects on two sides of the Atlantic . Burke was not pleading for America against an English Toryism . He voiced the common feeling of Englishmen who had any real ideas about ...
... Commons , and until he had inflamed against each other his subjects on two sides of the Atlantic . Burke was not pleading for America against an English Toryism . He voiced the common feeling of Englishmen who had any real ideas about ...
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... Commons to plead against civil war . What had brought about this disastrous change ? The German king of England , George III . He hated Pitt , hated English freedom , was resolved to be a " real monarch , " like the Stuart who had been ...
... Commons to plead against civil war . What had brought about this disastrous change ? The German king of England , George III . He hated Pitt , hated English freedom , was resolved to be a " real monarch , " like the Stuart who had been ...
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... Commons was elected ; the government was carried on by a Whig " cabinet , " or ministry . The cabinet had to see to it that the Tories remained in a very small minority , for there was real danger of an attempt to restore the Stuarts ...
... Commons was elected ; the government was carried on by a Whig " cabinet , " or ministry . The cabinet had to see to it that the Tories remained in a very small minority , for there was real danger of an attempt to restore the Stuarts ...
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... Commons wished a war to which he was opposed . He was followed by the Duke of Newcastle , who also was an unblushing owner of two- thirds of the seats . When the Seven Years ' War began , in 1756 , Pitt was the real leader of the nation ...
... Commons wished a war to which he was opposed . He was followed by the Duke of Newcastle , who also was an unblushing owner of two- thirds of the seats . When the Seven Years ' War began , in 1756 , Pitt was the real leader of the nation ...
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... control of the government could be gained by the king if he could get control of the House of 1See the Collateral Readings , pp . 156-168 . 1 Commons . This corresponded in a way to our House 14 BURKE'S SPEECH ON CONCILIATION.
... control of the government could be gained by the king if he could get control of the House of 1See the Collateral Readings , pp . 156-168 . 1 Commons . This corresponded in a way to our House 14 BURKE'S SPEECH ON CONCILIATION.
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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 46 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...
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 66 - 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, endeavour to obtain some smattering in that science.
Página 46 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so, as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart is an healing and cementing principle.
Página 59 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
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 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 253 - ... solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general Congress at Philadelphia. I trust it is obvious to your lordships that all attempts to impose servitude upon such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty continental nation must be vain, must be fatal. We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must.
Página 252 - When your Lordships look at the papers transmitted to us from America ; when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.