Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775D.C. Heath & Company, 1895 - 112 Seiten |
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... taxed to its utmost in the political arena , there was developed the literature of oratory , and Brit- ish eloquence added new splendor to prose . The times were seeking the man of large and liberal ideas . There existed a reading ...
... taxed to its utmost in the political arena , there was developed the literature of oratory , and Brit- ish eloquence added new splendor to prose . The times were seeking the man of large and liberal ideas . There existed a reading ...
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... Taxation in 1774 ; on Conciliation in 1775 ; and his Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol , 1777 . These three pieces are the most perfect manual in all literature for the study of great affairs , whether for the pur- pose of knowledge or ...
... Taxation in 1774 ; on Conciliation in 1775 ; and his Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol , 1777 . These three pieces are the most perfect manual in all literature for the study of great affairs , whether for the pur- pose of knowledge or ...
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... taxation were not wholly unfounded . That right thus exerted is allowed to have had something reprehensible in it ; something unwise , or something griev- ous ; since , in the midst of our heat and resentment , we , of 15 ourselves ...
... taxation were not wholly unfounded . That right thus exerted is allowed to have had something reprehensible in it ; something unwise , or something griev- ous ; since , in the midst of our heat and resentment , we , of 15 ourselves ...
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... taxing . Most of the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates ... taxes the ablest pens , and most eloquent tongues , have been exercised ; the greatest spirits have acted and ON ...
... taxing . Most of the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates ... taxes the ablest pens , and most eloquent tongues , have been exercised ; the greatest spirits have acted and ON ...
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... taxing . Liberty might be safe , or might be endangered , in twenty other particulars , without their being much pleased or alarmed . Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat , they thought them- selves sick or sound . I ...
... taxing . Liberty might be safe , or might be endangered , in twenty other particulars , without their being much pleased or alarmed . Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat , they thought them- selves sick or sound . I ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite ix - For why ? — because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
Seite 39 - 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 16 - 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 61 - And that it may be proper to repeal an act made in the fourteenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, entitled, "An act for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Seite 76 - 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.
Seite 15 - 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.
Seite xvii - She has a world of ready wealth, Our minds and hearts to bless — Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health, Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
Seite 19 - ... and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Seite 79 - 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 16 - 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 in the progress of their victorious industry.
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