Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, (March 22, 1775).Leach, Shewell & Sanborn, 1895 |
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Edmund Burke. CONTENTS . BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH • THE BEST BOOKS ABOUT BURKE . · NOTE ON THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM TEXT OF THE SPEECH . · NOTES ON THE SPEECH PAGE . ix xxiii · XXV 1 91 EDMUND BURKE . EDMUND BURKE was born in Dublin in.
Edmund Burke. CONTENTS . BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH • THE BEST BOOKS ABOUT BURKE . · NOTE ON THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM TEXT OF THE SPEECH . · NOTES ON THE SPEECH PAGE . ix xxiii · XXV 1 91 EDMUND BURKE . EDMUND BURKE was born in Dublin in.
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... Parliament for the borough of Wendover , and in Jan- uary , 1766 , delivered his maiden speech . This was a brilliant success ; it was an argument in favor of receiv- ing the petition sent to Parliament by the Stamp - Act Congress ...
... Parliament for the borough of Wendover , and in Jan- uary , 1766 , delivered his maiden speech . This was a brilliant success ; it was an argument in favor of receiv- ing the petition sent to Parliament by the Stamp - Act Congress ...
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... Parliament he contin- ually raised the voice of protest and of warning — but it was the voice of one crying in the wilderness . spoke to a king whose political wrongheadedness faith- fully represented the popular will , and to a House ...
... Parliament he contin- ually raised the voice of protest and of warning — but it was the voice of one crying in the wilderness . spoke to a king whose political wrongheadedness faith- fully represented the popular will , and to a House ...
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... Parliament until thirty - two years after Burke's death , and that as late as 1870 taxed Roman Catholics to support a Protestant church in Ire- land . 5. Burke was an Irishman . I have seldom seen an English book where this is referred ...
... Parliament until thirty - two years after Burke's death , and that as late as 1870 taxed Roman Catholics to support a Protestant church in Ire- land . 5. Burke was an Irishman . I have seldom seen an English book where this is referred ...
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... Parliament of whom Swift so touchingly wrote : 66 May their God , the Devil , confound them ! " Fox declared , with equal wit and wisdom , that it was lucky for Burke that he took the royal side in the Revolution ; had he taken the ...
... Parliament of whom Swift so touchingly wrote : 66 May their God , the Devil , confound them ! " Fox declared , with equal wit and wisdom , that it was lucky for Burke that he took the royal side in the Revolution ; had he taken the ...
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Seite xix - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Seite 97 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Seite 18 - 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.
Seite 17 - 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.
Seite 42 - 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.
Seite 18 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. 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 19 - 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.
Seite 18 - ... 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. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and salutary .neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her...
Seite 28 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources; of descent ; of form of government ; of religion in the northern provinces; of manners in the southern; of education; of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government; from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up. It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies, and increased with the increase of their wealth ; a spirit, that unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England, which, however lawful, is not...
Seite 17 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.