British Eloquence, Band 1Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1884 |
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... land . Next , to preserve an amity and league between that State and us ; that so we might join in aid of the Low Coun- tries , and by that means receive their help and ships by sea . Then , that this treble cord , so wrought be- tween ...
... land . Next , to preserve an amity and league between that State and us ; that so we might join in aid of the Low Coun- tries , and by that means receive their help and ships by sea . Then , that this treble cord , so wrought be- tween ...
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... land ? If there were a service , why were they shipped again ? Mr. Speaker , it satisfies me too much in this , when I think of their dry and hungry march . unto that drunken quarter ( for so the soldiers termed it ) where was the ...
... land ? If there were a service , why were they shipped again ? Mr. Speaker , it satisfies me too much in this , when I think of their dry and hungry march . unto that drunken quarter ( for so the soldiers termed it ) where was the ...
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... land , if the seas ; all these will render you variety of proofs . And in such measure and proportion as shows . the greatness of our sickness , that if it have not some speedy application for remedy , our case is most desperate . Mr ...
... land , if the seas ; all these will render you variety of proofs . And in such measure and proportion as shows . the greatness of our sickness , that if it have not some speedy application for remedy , our case is most desperate . Mr ...
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... land in a single year ; and during the period between 1629 and 1640 no less than about twenty thousand Puritans found a refuge in the New World . In Scotland resistance to the innovations of Laud took a more active turn . Royal procla ...
... land in a single year ; and during the period between 1629 and 1640 no less than about twenty thousand Puritans found a refuge in the New World . In Scotland resistance to the innovations of Laud took a more active turn . Royal procla ...
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... land was at the point of revolt . A London mob burst into the Bishop's palace at Lambeth , and then proceeded to break up the sittings of the High Commission at St. Paul's . Charles , finding the army in no condition to cope with the ...
... land was at the point of revolt . A London mob burst into the Bishop's palace at Lambeth , and then proceeded to break up the sittings of the High Commission at St. Paul's . Charles , finding the army in no condition to cope with the ...
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Seite 189 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war ; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented, from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace ; sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...
Seite 297 - The King willeth that right be done according to the laws and customs of the realm ; and that the statutes be put in due execution, that his subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions, contrary to their just rights and liberties, to the preservation whereof he holds himself as well obliged as of his prerogative.
Seite 218 - 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 vigour of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Seite 101 - Taxation is no part of the governing or legislative power. The taxes are a voluntary gift and grant of the Commons alone. In legislation, the three estates of the realm are alike concerned ; but the concurrence of the Peers and the Crown to a tax, is only necessary to close with the form of a law. The gift and grant is of the Commons alone.
Seite 204 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet, the spirit by -which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration. 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...
Seite 209 - English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favourite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness.
Seite 206 - I am sensible, sir, that all which I have asserted in my detail is admitted in the gross ; but that quite a different conclusion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them.
Seite 231 - I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures, as Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual at the bar. I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies, intrusted with magistracies of great authority and dignity, and charged with the safety of their fellow-citizens, upon the very same title that I am. I really think that, for wise men, this is not judicious ; for sober men,...
Seite 225 - ... deserts. If you drive the people from one place, they will carry on their annual tillage, and remove with their flocks and herds to another. Many of the people in the back settlements are already little attached to particular situations. Already they have topped the Appalachian mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain — one vast, rich, level meadow, a square of five hundred miles.
Seite 293 - 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...