Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America: Edited with Notes and an IntroductionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1906 - 164 Seiten |
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... taxation since the days of our Eng- lish Commonwealth , when the Navigation Act of 1651 required all colonial exports to England to be shipped only in American or English vessels . After the Restoration , a second Naviga- tion Act , in ...
... taxation since the days of our Eng- lish Commonwealth , when the Navigation Act of 1651 required all colonial exports to England to be shipped only in American or English vessels . After the Restoration , a second Naviga- tion Act , in ...
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... American colonies , when there was added for the first time a direct taxation for revenue to the long series of taxations for regulation of trade . At the beginning of the year 1764 the British Parliament voted that it had a right to tax ...
... American colonies , when there was added for the first time a direct taxation for revenue to the long series of taxations for regulation of trade . At the beginning of the year 1764 the British Parliament voted that it had a right to tax ...
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... taxation against the colonists . American opposition was disarmed by the repeal of the Stamp Act ; statues were voted to Pitt and to the king ; re- moval of the active cause of irritation brought back the old spirit of loyalty ; while ...
... taxation against the colonists . American opposition was disarmed by the repeal of the Stamp Act ; statues were voted to Pitt and to the king ; re- moval of the active cause of irritation brought back the old spirit of loyalty ; while ...
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... taxation , as Chatham in the interest of peace and unity contended , few will now maintain . The sovereign power must include the power of taxation , and taxation is but an ex- ercise of the legislative power in the form of a law ...
... taxation , as Chatham in the interest of peace and unity contended , few will now maintain . The sovereign power must include the power of taxation , and taxation is but an ex- ercise of the legislative power in the form of a law ...
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... taxes in pursuance of laws which they had no share in making . The leader of the New Whigs was the greatest Englishman of the eighteenth century , the elder William Pitt , now about to pass into the House of Lords as Earl of Chat- ham ...
... taxes in pursuance of laws which they had no share in making . The leader of the New Whigs was the greatest Englishman of the eighteenth century , the elder William Pitt , now about to pass into the House of Lords as Earl of Chat- ham ...
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Seite 15 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Seite 40 - 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 137 - ... bales; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations 'airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the...
Seite 77 - 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 18 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. 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 145 - And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
Seite lvi - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Seite lx - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Seite 7 - 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 20 - ... preserve it. The thing you fought for is not the thing which you recover, but depreciated, sunk, wasted, and consumed in the contest. Nothing less will content me than whole America. I do not choose to consume its strength along with our own ; because in all parts it is the British strength that I consume. I do not choose to be caught by a foreign enemy at the end of this exhausting conflict, and still less in the midst of it.