Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with AmericaLongmans, Green, and Company, 1896 - 164 Seiten |
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... opinion that it was necessary to curb their unruly will . Nor need we be surprised at the rapidity with which such angry feelings broke out . Indeed , looking , on the one hand , at the despotic principles which , for the first time ...
... opinion that it was necessary to curb their unruly will . Nor need we be surprised at the rapidity with which such angry feelings broke out . Indeed , looking , on the one hand , at the despotic principles which , for the first time ...
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... opinion in the people of England that the Americans were rebellious and ungrateful , and alluding to the causes that were less honourable in the sentiment , and that were discreditable to us , and that operated so fatally to the ...
... opinion in the people of England that the Americans were rebellious and ungrateful , and alluding to the causes that were less honourable in the sentiment , and that were discreditable to us , and that operated so fatally to the ...
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... opinion of the king , this great statesman was at best but an eloquent declaimer , to be classed in the same category with Fox and Chatham ; all three ingenious men , but unsafe , un- steady , quite unfit for weighty concerns , and by ...
... opinion of the king , this great statesman was at best but an eloquent declaimer , to be classed in the same category with Fox and Chatham ; all three ingenious men , but unsafe , un- steady , quite unfit for weighty concerns , and by ...
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... opinion that such armies , first victorious over Englishmen , in a con- flict for English constitutional rights and privileges , and after- wards habituated ( though in America ) to keep an English peo- ple in a state of abject ...
... opinion that such armies , first victorious over Englishmen , in a con- flict for English constitutional rights and privileges , and after- wards habituated ( though in America ) to keep an English peo- ple in a state of abject ...
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... opinion was precisely similar in the struggle to which the United States owed their separate existence . Now the idea of a right as a mysterious and reverend abstraction , to be worshipped in a state of naked divorce from expediency and ...
... opinion was precisely similar in the struggle to which the United States owed their separate existence . Now the idea of a right as a mysterious and reverend abstraction , to be worshipped in a state of naked divorce from expediency and ...
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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.