Speech on Conciliation with AmericaScott, Foresman, 1919 - 319 páginas |
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Página 49
... regard to the nature of the object is the number of people in the colonies . I have taken for some years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calcula- tion justify myself in placing the number below two millions of ...
... regard to the nature of the object is the number of people in the colonies . I have taken for some years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calcula- tion justify myself in placing the number below two millions of ...
Página 76
... regard to the high aristocratic spirit of Virginia and the southern colonies it has been pro- posed , I know , to reduce it by declaring a general enfranchisement of their slaves . This project has had its advocates and panegyrists ...
... regard to the high aristocratic spirit of Virginia and the southern colonies it has been pro- posed , I know , to reduce it by declaring a general enfranchisement of their slaves . This project has had its advocates and panegyrists ...
Página 82
... regard to this complaint . If you mean to please any people , you must give them the boon which they ask - not what you may think better for them , but of a kind totally different . Such an act may be a wise regulation , but it is no ...
... regard to this complaint . If you mean to please any people , you must give them the boon which they ask - not what you may think better for them , but of a kind totally different . Such an act may be a wise regulation , but it is no ...
Página 92
... regard to America . By another act , where one of the parties was an Englishman they ordained that his trial should be always by English . They made acts to restrain trade , as you do ; and they prevented the Welsh from the use of fairs ...
... regard to America . By another act , where one of the parties was an Englishman they ordained that his trial should be always by English . They made acts to restrain trade , as you do ; and they prevented the Welsh from the use of fairs ...
Página 95
... regard to the County Pal- atine of Durham , which is my fourth example . This county had long lain out of the pale of free legislation . So scrupulously was the example of Chester followed , that the style of the preamble is nearly the ...
... regard to the County Pal- atine of Durham , which is my fourth example . This county had long lain out of the pale of free legislation . So scrupulously was the example of Chester followed , that the style of the preamble is nearly the ...
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acts of Parliament administration Amer America American Revolution assemblies authority British Burke Burke's cause CHARLES JAMES FOX Chester civil colonies colonists commerce confidence Constitution court crown declared despotism dignity duty EDMUND BURKE effect empire England English freedom Englishmen faction favor feel force gentlemen George III German German king give grant honorable gentleman Horace Walpole House of Commons idea justice King King's king's men kingdom liberty Lord Chatham Lord Hillsborough Lord North Majesty means measures ment mind ministers ministry mode 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 SPEECH ON CONCILIATION spirit Stamp Act taxation taxes things tion touched and grieved trade laws troops vote Wales Whig whilst whole wish
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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.