Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, (March 22, 1775).Leach, Shewell & Sanborn, 1895 |
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... ancient methods and forms of Parliament . The principle of this proceeding is large enough for 10 my purpose . The means proposed by the Noble Lord for carrying his ideas into execution , I think , indeed , are very indifferently suited ...
... ancient methods and forms of Parliament . The principle of this proceeding is large enough for 10 my purpose . The means proposed by the Noble Lord for carrying his ideas into execution , I think , indeed , are very indifferently suited ...
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... ancient indulgence has been said to be pursued to a fault . It may be so . But we know , if feeling is evidence , that our fault was more tol- 25 erable than our attempt to mend it , and our sin far more salutary than our penitence ...
... ancient indulgence has been said to be pursued to a fault . It may be so . But we know , if feeling is evidence , that our fault was more tol- 25 erable than our attempt to mend it , and our sin far more salutary than our penitence ...
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... ancient common- wealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates , or on the balance among the several orders of the state . The question of money was not with them so immediate . But in England it was otherwise . On 10 ...
... ancient common- wealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates , or on the balance among the several orders of the state . The question of money was not with them so immediate . But in England it was otherwise . On 10 ...
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... ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic an- cestors ; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves who are not slaves themselves . 5 In such a people , the haughtiness of domination com- bines with the ...
... ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic an- cestors ; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves who are not slaves themselves . 5 In such a people , the haughtiness of domination com- bines with the ...
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... ancient government ever was in its most fortunate periods . Obedience is what makes government , and not the names by which it is called ; not the name of governor , as formerly , or committee , as at present . This new government has ...
... ancient government ever was in its most fortunate periods . Obedience is what makes government , and not the names by which it is called ; not the name of governor , as formerly , or committee , as at present . This new government has ...
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Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, (March 22, 1775) Edmund Burke Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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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.