Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with AmericaLongmans, Green, and Company, 1896 - 164 Seiten |
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... head of the Treasury vacated by Lord Rockingham , and the Ministry included men who would be foremost in enforcing rights of taxation against the colonists . American opposition was disarmed by the repeal of the Stamp Act ; statues were ...
... head of the Treasury vacated by Lord Rockingham , and the Ministry included men who would be foremost in enforcing rights of taxation against the colonists . American opposition was disarmed by the repeal of the Stamp Act ; statues were ...
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... head of England low among the nations . Few require to be again told how , when England was burdened by a heavy debt contracted in the war , George Grenville , in an evil hour , bethought him of making the colonies contribute to their ...
... head of England low among the nations . Few require to be again told how , when England was burdened by a heavy debt contracted in the war , George Grenville , in an evil hour , bethought him of making the colonies contribute to their ...
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... head for business . Industrious as a beaver and obstinate as a mule , he was an adept in political trickery . In the corrupt use of patronage he showed himself able to beat the Old Whigs at their own game , and with the aid of the ...
... head for business . Industrious as a beaver and obstinate as a mule , he was an adept in political trickery . In the corrupt use of patronage he showed himself able to beat the Old Whigs at their own game , and with the aid of the ...
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... who was then at the head of affairs ; and the suggestion , being generally deemed im- practicable , fell to the ground , and seems , indeed , hardly to have excited attention . But what was deemed by the government INTRODUCTION xxiii.
... who was then at the head of affairs ; and the suggestion , being generally deemed im- practicable , fell to the ground , and seems , indeed , hardly to have excited attention . But what was deemed by the government INTRODUCTION xxiii.
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... heads sometimes spread out so widely , that their connection with the main topic is not always obvious . But there is reigning throughout the whole a massive unity of design like that of a great cathedral , whatever may be the intricacy ...
... heads sometimes spread out so widely , that their connection with the main topic is not always obvious . But there is reigning throughout the whole a massive unity of design like that of a great cathedral , whatever may be the intricacy ...
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Seite xxxix - 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 36 - ... which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
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 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 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 18 - 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 62 - An Act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs upon the exportation from this kingdom of coffee and...
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 25 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
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.