Edmund Burke's Speech in the House of Commons, March 22, 1775 on Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the ColoniesSilver, Burdett and Company, 1897 - 97 Seiten |
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... situation a situation which I will not miscall , which I dare not name , which I scarcely know how to comprehend in the terms of any description . In this posture , Sir , things stood at the beginning of the 10 session . About that time ...
... situation a situation which I will not miscall , which I dare not name , which I scarcely know how to comprehend in the terms of any description . In this posture , Sir , things stood at the beginning of the 10 session . About that time ...
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... which appears to me , in our pres- ent situation , no better than arrant trifling . I shall there- fore endeavor , with your leave , to lay before you some of 35 the most material of these circumstances in as full and ON CONCILIATION . 21.
... which appears to me , in our pres- ent situation , no better than arrant trifling . I shall there- fore endeavor , with your leave , to lay before you some of 35 the most material of these circumstances in as full and ON CONCILIATION . 21.
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... situation from the first mover of government — from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up . It has grown with the growth of the people in your Colonies , and 5 increased with the increase of their wealth ; a spirit ...
... situation from the first mover of government — from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up . It has grown with the growth of the people in your Colonies , and 5 increased with the increase of their wealth ; a spirit ...
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... situation , how can the wisest of us conjecture ? Our late experience has taught us that many of those fundamental principles , formerly believed infal- 15 lible , are either not of the importance they were imagined to be , or that we ...
... situation , how can the wisest of us conjecture ? Our late experience has taught us that many of those fundamental principles , formerly believed infal- 15 lible , are either not of the importance they were imagined to be , or that we ...
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... situations . Already they have 10 topped the Appalachian Mountains . From thence they behold before them an immense plain , one vast , rich , level meadow ; a square of five hundred miles . Over this they would wander without a ...
... situations . Already they have 10 topped the Appalachian Mountains . From thence they behold before them an immense plain , one vast , rich , level meadow ; a square of five hundred miles . Over this they would wander without a ...
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25 cents 30 cents Act of Navigation ancient argument Assembly authority Boston Boston Tea Party British Burke's burthen cause Chester Church of England civil Colonies and Plantations Colonists commerce concession Conciliation County Palatine Crown dispute duties EDMUND BURKE empire England experience fact favor force freedom genius give grant grievance happy honor House of Commons ideas inhabitants Ireland judge justice Knights and Burgesses legislature less Lord Hillsborough Lord Shelburne Majesty Massachusetts Bay matter mean ments mode nation nature never noble lord obedience object opinion paper Parliamentary Partition of Poland peace political ports preamble present principle privileges propose proposition provinces quarrel reason resolution revenue Rockingham seems Serbonian bog slaves sort speech Stamp Act sure taxation taxes things thought tion touched and grieved trade laws trial true truth Wales Warren Hastings whilst whole wholly
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Seite 28 - 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 82 - 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 84 - ... directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master principles...
Seite 28 - Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Seite 82 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Seite 45 - ... 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 28 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Seite 29 - First, sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Seite 26 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it ! Fortunate indeed, if he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day ! Excuse me, sir, if, turning from such thoughts, I resume this comparative view once more.
Seite 29 - ... when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.