Burke's Speech on Conciliation with AmericanGinn, 1897 - 152 Seiten |
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... causes were producing irritation on both sides . In the first place , the mother country , by a short - sighted effort to keep a monopoly of commerce and ` manufactures , had from time to time laid restrictions upon them.2 Such were the ...
... causes were producing irritation on both sides . In the first place , the mother country , by a short - sighted effort to keep a monopoly of commerce and ` manufactures , had from time to time laid restrictions upon them.2 Such were the ...
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... cause of America was exactly the same as that for which they were fighting in England . They maintained that representation is a natural right . Between these two extremes the Rockingham Whigs steered a middle course . They held that ...
... cause of America was exactly the same as that for which they were fighting in England . They maintained that representation is a natural right . Between these two extremes the Rockingham Whigs steered a middle course . They held that ...
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... cause of the sufferer their own . When the royal governors dissolved the provincial assemblies for expressing sympathy , the colonies united in the Congress at Philadelphia in the autumn of 1774. This body heartily supported Massa ...
... cause of the sufferer their own . When the royal governors dissolved the provincial assemblies for expressing sympathy , the colonies united in the Congress at Philadelphia in the autumn of 1774. This body heartily supported Massa ...
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... Cause of the Present Discontents in 1770 , he presented convincing evidence to all doubters . For aside from differences of opinion between the Letters and the Thoughts , Burke did not use as his weapon the railing and invec- tive of ...
... Cause of the Present Discontents in 1770 , he presented convincing evidence to all doubters . For aside from differences of opinion between the Letters and the Thoughts , Burke did not use as his weapon the railing and invec- tive of ...
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... cause you wished me to undertake . I should have lost the only thing which can make such abilities as mine of any use to the world now or hereafter : I mean that authority which is derived from an opinion that a member speaks the ...
... cause you wished me to undertake . I should have lost the only thing which can make such abilities as mine of any use to the world now or hereafter : I mean that authority which is derived from an opinion that a member speaks the ...
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Seite 17 - 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 liii - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Seite 87 - AND after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, 2 And was transfigured before them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light 3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Seite 72 - Slavery they can have anywhere. 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.
Seite 73 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. 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 honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Seite 18 - My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource; for, conciliation failing, force remains, but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left.
Seite 107 - That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council...
Seite 16 - Straits — while 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 resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Seite 76 - 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 72 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.