Burke's Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies (March) 22, 1775)Leach, Shewell & Sanborn, 1895 - 115 Seiten |
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... sure , that , if my proposition were futile or dangerous , if it were weakly conceived or improperly timed , there was nothing exterior to it , of power to awe , 5 dazzle , or delude you . You will see it just as it is , and you will ...
... sure , that , if my proposition were futile or dangerous , if it were weakly conceived or improperly timed , there was nothing exterior to it , of power to awe , 5 dazzle , or delude you . You will see it just as it is , and you will ...
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... , unless I could be sure that there were no rights which , in their exercise under cer- tain circumstances , were not the most odious of all wrongs , and the most vexatious of all injustice . 40 SPEECH OF EDMUND BURKE.
... , unless I could be sure that there were no rights which , in their exercise under cer- tain circumstances , were not the most odious of all wrongs , and the most vexatious of all injustice . 40 SPEECH OF EDMUND BURKE.
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... sure footing 25 in the middle . This point is the- 66 great Serbonian bog , Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old , Where armies whole have sunk . " I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog ON CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES . 43.
... sure footing 25 in the middle . This point is the- 66 great Serbonian bog , Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old , Where armies whole have sunk . " I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog ON CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES . 43.
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... sure the colonists had , at their leaving this country , sealed a regular compact of servitude , that they had solemnly abjured all the rights of citizens , 25 that they had made a vow to renounce all ideas of liberty for them and their ...
... sure the colonists had , at their leaving this country , sealed a regular compact of servitude , that they had solemnly abjured all the rights of citizens , 25 that they had made a vow to renounce all ideas of liberty for them and their ...
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... sure they are still , in 15 many ways , of great use to us ; and in former times they have been of the greatest . They do confine and they do greatly narrow the market for the Americans . But my perfect conviction of this does not help ...
... sure they are still , in 15 many ways , of great use to us ; and in former times they have been of the greatest . They do confine and they do greatly narrow the market for the Americans . But my perfect conviction of this does not help ...
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Seite xix - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal to all things, for all things unfit, Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit : For a patriot, too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemploy'd, or in place, Sir, To eat mutton cold, and...
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 44 - 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 - ... 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 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.
Seite 21 - England, Sir, is a nation, which still I hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Seite 86 - 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.
Seite 43 - A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
Seite 87 - It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain ; they may have it from Prussia ; but, until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price, of which you have the monopoly.