Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, (March 22, 1775).Leach, Shewell & Sanborn, 1895 |
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... natural phi- losophy , logic , metaphysics , history , and poetry ; it is not probable that he desired or needed much tutorial guidance in acquiring a first - hand knowledge of these subjects . In 1750 Burke went to London and entered ...
... natural phi- losophy , logic , metaphysics , history , and poetry ; it is not probable that he desired or needed much tutorial guidance in acquiring a first - hand knowledge of these subjects . In 1750 Burke went to London and entered ...
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... Natural Society , and A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful . The Vindication is a satire written in the style of Boling- broke , and attempts to show that the kind of arguments which that ...
... Natural Society , and A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful . The Vindication is a satire written in the style of Boling- broke , and attempts to show that the kind of arguments which that ...
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... nature , gives to its inmates a security like that enjoyed by the chief who , passing through the territories of powerful and deadly enemies , is armed with the British guarantee . " . . The shadows of the Indian mutiny fall athwart ...
... nature , gives to its inmates a security like that enjoyed by the chief who , passing through the territories of powerful and deadly enemies , is armed with the British guarantee . " . . The shadows of the Indian mutiny fall athwart ...
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... nature will incline you to some degree of indulgence towards human frailty . You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object de- pending , which strongly engages their hopes and fears , 5 should be somewhat inclined to ...
... nature will incline you to some degree of indulgence towards human frailty . You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object de- pending , which strongly engages their hopes and fears , 5 should be somewhat inclined to ...
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... natural abilities for the proper execution of that trust , I was obliged to take more than common pains to instruct my- self in everything which relates to our Colonies . I was 20 not less under the necessity of forming some fixed ideas ...
... natural abilities for the proper execution of that trust , I was obliged to take more than common pains to instruct my- self in everything which relates to our Colonies . I was 20 not less under the necessity of forming some fixed ideas ...
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Page xix - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Page 97 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 18 - We know, that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Page 17 - 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.
Page 42 - 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.
Page 18 - 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.
Page 19 - 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.
Page 18 - ... 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. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and salutary .neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her...
Page 28 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources; of descent ; of form of government ; of religion in the northern provinces; of manners in the southern; of education; of the remoteness of 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 increased with the increase of their wealth ; a spirit, that unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England, which, however lawful, is not...
Page 17 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.