British Eloquence, Band 1Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1884 |
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... political thought that have shaped the history of Great Britain during the past two hundred and fifty years . The effort has been not so much to make a collection of the most remarkable specimens of English elo- quence , as to bring ...
... political thought that have shaped the history of Great Britain during the past two hundred and fifty years . The effort has been not so much to make a collection of the most remarkable specimens of English elo- quence , as to bring ...
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... 1832 was the most cogent advocacy of what proved to be nothing less than a political revolution ; and Cobden , the inspirer and apostle of Free Trade , enjoys the unique distinction of having reversed the opin- ions of a vi PREFACE .
... 1832 was the most cogent advocacy of what proved to be nothing less than a political revolution ; and Cobden , the inspirer and apostle of Free Trade , enjoys the unique distinction of having reversed the opin- ions of a vi PREFACE .
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... political doctrines of the Liberals in regard to affairs both at home and abroad . It is these speeches , which at one time or another have seemed to go forth as in some sense the authoritative messages of English history to mankind ...
... political doctrines of the Liberals in regard to affairs both at home and abroad . It is these speeches , which at one time or another have seemed to go forth as in some sense the authoritative messages of English history to mankind ...
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... political situation involved in the discussion , but also the right of the orator to be heard . These two objects have made it necessary to place before the reader with some fulness the political careers of the speakers and the politi ...
... political situation involved in the discussion , but also the right of the orator to be heard . These two objects have made it necessary to place before the reader with some fulness the political careers of the speakers and the politi ...
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... a better understanding of the arduous means by which free political institu- tions have been acquired . UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN , ANN ARBOR , November 22 , 1884 . C. K. A. SIR JOHN ELIOT . SIR JOHN ELIOT . CONTENTS . PREFACE . ix.
... a better understanding of the arduous means by which free political institu- tions have been acquired . UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN , ANN ARBOR , November 22 , 1884 . C. K. A. SIR JOHN ELIOT . SIR JOHN ELIOT . CONTENTS . PREFACE . ix.
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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...