Burke's Speech on Conciliation with AmericaMacmillan Company, 1906 |
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... ideas of political freedom that had grown up in the colonies ; and , although more than half of the Navigation Acts were passed by Whig governments , the leaders had known how to wink at the violation of nearly all of them . Immediately ...
... ideas of political freedom that had grown up in the colonies ; and , although more than half of the Navigation Acts were passed by Whig governments , the leaders had known how to wink at the violation of nearly all of them . Immediately ...
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... Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful . 2 Hints for an Essay on the Drama . Abridgement of the History of England . performance of the immediate duties of his office , but xviii INTRODUCTION.
... Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful . 2 Hints for an Essay on the Drama . Abridgement of the History of England . performance of the immediate duties of his office , but xviii INTRODUCTION.
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... ideas of government , founded , as he believed , upon the soundest principles . Bristol elected him as its representative in Parliament . It was a great honor and Burke felt its significance , yet he did not flinch when the time came ...
... ideas of government , founded , as he believed , upon the soundest principles . Bristol elected him as its representative in Parliament . It was a great honor and Burke felt its significance , yet he did not flinch when the time came ...
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... ideas , it would be wrong to think of him as a thoroughgoing reformer . He has been called the Great Conservative , and the title is appropriate . Het would have shrunk from a purely republican form of government , such as our own , and ...
... ideas , it would be wrong to think of him as a thoroughgoing reformer . He has been called the Great Conservative , and the title is appropriate . Het would have shrunk from a purely republican form of government , such as our own , and ...
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... times he is extremely self - conscious , but the dominant qual- ity of his style , and the one which forever contradicts the idea of mere showiness , is passion . In his method of approaching a subject , he may be , and xxxiv INTRODUCTION.
... times he is extremely self - conscious , but the dominant qual- ity of his style , and the one which forever contradicts the idea of mere showiness , is passion . In his method of approaching a subject , he may be , and xxxiv INTRODUCTION.
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Page 53 - 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 22 - 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...
Page 30 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
Page 21 - 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 31 - 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.
Page 106 - England worship freedom they will turn their faces towards you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience. 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.
Page 47 - ... 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.
Page 91 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences ; we give and take ; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Page 105 - 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.
Page 106 - 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.