Conciliation with the ColoniesAllyn and Bacon, 1894 - 100 Seiten |
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... ideas concern- ing the general policy of the British Empire . Something of this sort seemed to be indispensable , in order , amidst so vast a fluctuation of passions and opinions , to con- 20 centre my thoughts , to ballast my conduct ...
... ideas concern- ing the general policy of the British Empire . Something of this sort seemed to be indispensable , in order , amidst so vast a fluctuation of passions and opinions , to con- 20 centre my thoughts , to ballast my conduct ...
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... should show that they had formed some clear and decided idea of the principles of Colony government ; and were capable of 35 drawing out something like a platform of the ground which Conciliation with the Colonies . 8.
... should show that they had formed some clear and decided idea of the principles of Colony government ; and were capable of 35 drawing out something like a platform of the ground which Conciliation with the Colonies . 8.
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... idea of my own insignificance . For , judg- 5 ing of what you are by what you ought to be , I persuaded myself that you would not reject a reasonable proposition because it had nothing but its reason to recommend it . On the other hand ...
... idea of my own insignificance . For , judg- 5 ing of what you are by what you ought to be , I persuaded myself that you would not reject a reasonable proposition because it had nothing but its reason to recommend it . On the other hand ...
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... idea of con- ciliation is admissible . First , the House , in accepting the resolution moved by the noble lord , has admitted ... ideas of free grace and bounty . The House has gone farther ; it has declared concilia- 30 tion admissible ...
... idea of con- ciliation is admissible . First , the House , in accepting the resolution moved by the noble lord , has admitted ... ideas of free grace and bounty . The House has gone farther ; it has declared concilia- 30 tion admissible ...
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... ideas into execution , I think , indeed , are very indifferently suited to the end ; and this I shall 10 endeavor to show you before I sit down . But , for the present , I take my ground on the admitted principle . I mean to give peace ...
... ideas into execution , I think , indeed , are very indifferently suited to the end ; and this I shall 10 endeavor to show you before I sit down . But , for the present , I take my ground on the admitted principle . I mean to give peace ...
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Seite 15 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils.
Seite 15 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Seite 73 - ... 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...
Seite 72 - 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.
Seite 21 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves.
Seite 23 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Curdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers, which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Seite 74 - By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Seite 15 - ... through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, — I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Seite 22 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Seite 15 - 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.