Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with AmericaLongmans, Green, and Company, 1896 - 164 Seiten |
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... thing in the world . The country was really governed by a few great families , some of whose members sat in the House of Lords and others in the House of Commons . Their measures were often noble and patriotic in the highest degree ...
... thing in the world . The country was really governed by a few great families , some of whose members sat in the House of Lords and others in the House of Commons . Their measures were often noble and patriotic in the highest degree ...
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... things just as they were , could not adopt such an argument ; and accordingly they based their condem- nation of the Stamp Act upon grounds of pure expediency . They argued that it was not worth while , for the sake of a little 92 ...
... things just as they were , could not adopt such an argument ; and accordingly they based their condem- nation of the Stamp Act upon grounds of pure expediency . They argued that it was not worth while , for the sake of a little 92 ...
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... things , the wise and forbearing policy of the preceding reign was set at naught , and the national councils guided by rash and igno- rant men , who soon brought the greatest disasters upon the country , and within a few years actually ...
... things , the wise and forbearing policy of the preceding reign was set at naught , and the national councils guided by rash and igno- rant men , who soon brought the greatest disasters upon the country , and within a few years actually ...
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... things alone are sufficient to explain the animosity of a prince , whose boast it was that he would bequeath the gov- ernment to his successor in the same state as that in which he had received it . There was , however , another ...
... things alone are sufficient to explain the animosity of a prince , whose boast it was that he would bequeath the gov- ernment to his successor in the same state as that in which he had received it . There was , however , another ...
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... things , should , during thirty years , have received from his prince neither favour nor reward . But George III . was a king whose delight it was to raise the humble and exalt the meek . His reign , indeed , was the golden age of ...
... things , should , during thirty years , have received from his prince neither favour nor reward . But George III . was a king whose delight it was to raise the humble and exalt the meek . His reign , indeed , was the golden age of ...
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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.