Burke's Speech on Conciliation with AmericanGinn, 1897 - 152 Seiten |
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... passed in 1765. America was furious . October a congress of delegates from Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , Delaware , Maryland and South Carolina met at New York and framed formal ...
... passed in 1765. America was furious . October a congress of delegates from Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , Delaware , Maryland and South Carolina met at New York and framed formal ...
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... passing events in the light of enduring wisdom . First in 1769 he put forth the Observations on the Present State of the Nation , a reply to a pamphlet by George Grenville , who had accused his successors of ruining the country . In ...
... passing events in the light of enduring wisdom . First in 1769 he put forth the Observations on the Present State of the Nation , a reply to a pamphlet by George Grenville , who had accused his successors of ruining the country . In ...
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... passed resolutions com- mending his labors in behalf of commerce . Finally , in 1774 , when the troubles with America were thickening , Bristol , the trading centre of the west of England , the city which had every- thing to lose and ...
... passed resolutions com- mending his labors in behalf of commerce . Finally , in 1774 , when the troubles with America were thickening , Bristol , the trading centre of the west of England , the city which had every- thing to lose and ...
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... passed . His first speeches , as has been said , “ filled the town with wonder " ; and during his earlier career many of his con- tributions to the debates were so compact , pointed , and telling3 that he was everywhere recognized as ...
... passed . His first speeches , as has been said , “ filled the town with wonder " ; and during his earlier career many of his con- tributions to the debates were so compact , pointed , and telling3 that he was everywhere recognized as ...
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... passed , as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and St. James's Street . " 1 With all India thus present to his eye , Burke drew pictures of such startling reality , he showed such thorough and easy mastery of every ...
... passed , as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield and St. James's Street . " 1 With all India thus present to his eye , Burke drew pictures of such startling reality , he showed such thorough and easy mastery of every ...
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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.