Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with AmericaLongmans, Green, and Company, 1896 - 164 Seiten |
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... practice . In the eighteenth century the House of Commons was very far from being a body that fairly represented the people of Great Britain . For a long time there had been no change in the distribution of seats , and meanwhile the ...
... practice . In the eighteenth century the House of Commons was very far from being a body that fairly represented the people of Great Britain . For a long time there had been no change in the distribution of seats , and meanwhile the ...
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... practice and routine of mechanical trades . All this was so digested and worked into his mind , that it was ready on every occasion ; not , like the knowledge of ordinary politicians , broken and wasted in frag- ments , but blended into ...
... practice and routine of mechanical trades . All this was so digested and worked into his mind , that it was ready on every occasion ; not , like the knowledge of ordinary politicians , broken and wasted in frag- ments , but blended into ...
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... practice to principles , modify the principles that he may change the practice . Or , to put this in another way , he lays it down that political principles are at best but the product of human reason ; while politi practice has to do ...
... practice to principles , modify the principles that he may change the practice . Or , to put this in another way , he lays it down that political principles are at best but the product of human reason ; while politi practice has to do ...
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... practice , as the English Legislature began to perceive several years later . He attacked the slave - trade ; which , being an ancient usage , the king wished to preserve , as part of the British constitu- tion . He refuted , but ...
... practice , as the English Legislature began to perceive several years later . He attacked the slave - trade ; which , being an ancient usage , the king wished to preserve , as part of the British constitu- tion . He refuted , but ...
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... practice . They are an example without fault of all the qualities which the critic , whether a theorist or an actor , of great political situations , should strive by night and by day to possess . If the subject with which they deal ...
... practice . They are an example without fault of all the qualities which the critic , whether a theorist or an actor , of great political situations , should strive by night and by day to possess . If the subject with which they deal ...
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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.