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obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself ; and we never seem to gain a
paltry advantage over them in debate , without attacking some of those principles
, or deriding some of those feelings , for which our ancestors have shed their ...
obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself ; and we never seem to gain a
paltry advantage over them in debate , without attacking some of those principles
, or deriding some of those feelings , for which our ancestors have shed their ...
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But when I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to
us , it seems to my poor 15 understanding a little preposterous to make them
unserviceable in order to keep them obedient . It is , in truth , nothing more than
the ...
But when I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to
us , it seems to my poor 15 understanding a little preposterous to make them
unserviceable in order to keep them obedient . It is , in truth , nothing more than
the ...
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If then , Sir , it seems almost desperate to think of any alterative course for
changing the moral causes ( and not quite easy to remove the natural ) which
produce preju- 10 dices irreconcilable to the late exercise of our authority , but
that the ...
If then , Sir , it seems almost desperate to think of any alterative course for
changing the moral causes ( and not quite easy to remove the natural ) which
produce preju- 10 dices irreconcilable to the late exercise of our authority , but
that the ...
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The claim of a privilege seems rather , ex vi termini , to 25 imply a superior power
; for to talk of the privileges of a state or of a person who has no superior is hardly
any better than speaking nonsense . Now in such unfortunate quarrels among ...
The claim of a privilege seems rather , ex vi termini , to 25 imply a superior power
; for to talk of the privileges of a state or of a person who has no superior is hardly
any better than speaking nonsense . Now in such unfortunate quarrels among ...
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... more resemblance to a sort of qualified hostility 25 towards an independent
power than the punishment of rebellious subjects . All this seems rather
inconsistent ; but it shows how difficult it is to apply these juridical ideas to our
present case .
... more resemblance to a sort of qualified hostility 25 towards an independent
power than the punishment of rebellious subjects . All this seems rather
inconsistent ; but it shows how difficult it is to apply these juridical ideas to our
present case .
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Página 75 - ... empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Página 81 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to do.
Página 54 - ... 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 126 - ... 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. 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...
Página 149 - British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed.
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. 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.
Página 64 - Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire; and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies, the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities.
Página 54 - 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. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace...
Página 124 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.
Página 125 - Do you imagine, then, that it is the Land Tax Act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the Committee of Supply which gives you your army? or that it is the Mutiny Bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No! surely no! It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Speech on Conciliation with America Gateway series of English texts Gateway series |
| Autor | Edmund Burke |
| Editor | William MacDonald |
| Editor | American Book Company, 1904 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 14 Mar 2007 |
| N.º de páginas | 164 páginas |
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