Speech on Conciliation with AmericaScott, Foresman, 1919 - 319 páginas |
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... minister . " In the system of government that developed while he was in power a prime minister was appointed by the king ; he was empowered to " form a ministry " —that is , to select a dozen leaders from the houses of Com- mons and ...
... minister . " In the system of government that developed while he was in power a prime minister was appointed by the king ; he was empowered to " form a ministry " —that is , to select a dozen leaders from the houses of Com- mons and ...
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... minister who was opposed by the majority , the king would have been powerless to en- force his policies . Thus the ministry became the regu- lator of the machinery of government . It could continue in office as long as it could command ...
... minister who was opposed by the majority , the king would have been powerless to en- force his policies . Thus the ministry became the regu- lator of the machinery of government . It could continue in office as long as it could command ...
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... minister who was an out - and - out favorite and servile Tory . But the country showed such a fury of scorn for this crea- ture ( Bute ) that the king had to go to work another way . He set himself patiently and craftily at the long ...
... minister who was an out - and - out favorite and servile Tory . But the country showed such a fury of scorn for this crea- ture ( Bute ) that the king had to go to work another way . He set himself patiently and craftily at the long ...
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... minister was voted out after two years , he tried another . In six years he made six min- istries . He stirred up quarrels among the Whigs ; he richly rewarded any who would be subservient and tried to make life unbearable for those who ...
... minister was voted out after two years , he tried another . In six years he made six min- istries . He stirred up quarrels among the Whigs ; he richly rewarded any who would be subservient and tried to make life unbearable for those who ...
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... ministers to adopt his own views , he espoused with passionate eagerness the American quarrel , resisted obstinately ... minister . " ' 1 • It is no wonder that Burke called the American question " an awful subject , " that North called ...
... ministers to adopt his own views , he espoused with passionate eagerness the American quarrel , resisted obstinately ... minister . " ' 1 • It is no wonder that Burke called the American question " an awful subject , " that North called ...
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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.