Representative British Orations: With Introductions and Explanatory Notes, Volume 1Charles Kendall Adams G.P. Putnam's sons, 1884 |
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... freedom of juries and the freedom of the press . Pitt , in the most elaborate as well as the most important of all his remarkable speeches , expounded the English policy of con- tinuous opposition to Napoleon ; and Fox , in one of the ...
... freedom of juries and the freedom of the press . Pitt , in the most elaborate as well as the most important of all his remarkable speeches , expounded the English policy of con- tinuous opposition to Napoleon ; and Fox , in one of the ...
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... As soon as he ascended the throne in 1625 , it began to look as though a contest would be inevitable between royal will on the one hand and popular freedom on the other . The King , 4 SIR JOHN ELIOT . determined to rule in his.
... As soon as he ascended the throne in 1625 , it began to look as though a contest would be inevitable between royal will on the one hand and popular freedom on the other . The King , 4 SIR JOHN ELIOT . determined to rule in his.
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... freedom , vigor , and activity , which belongs to itself . Our predecessors in this House have ever been most careful in the first place to settle and secure their privileges ; and he hoped , that we , having had greater breaches made ...
... freedom , vigor , and activity , which belongs to itself . Our predecessors in this House have ever been most careful in the first place to settle and secure their privileges ; and he hoped , that we , having had greater breaches made ...
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... freedom of resorting to Lon- don and the court , whereby they have oppor- tunity , not only of communicating their coun- sels and designs , one to another , but of diving into his Majesty's counsels , by the frequent access of those who ...
... freedom of resorting to Lon- don and the court , whereby they have oppor- tunity , not only of communicating their coun- sels and designs , one to another , but of diving into his Majesty's counsels , by the frequent access of those who ...
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... freedom of the cities " in token of their approval of the minis- ter . As Horace Walpole said : " It rained gold boxes . " The King was obliged to give way , and in June of 1757 Pitt was recalled . Then began his great career as a ...
... freedom of the cities " in token of their approval of the minis- ter . As Horace Walpole said : " It rained gold boxes . " The King was obliged to give way , and in June of 1757 Pitt was recalled . Then began his great career as a ...
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Page 201 - England, Sir, is a nation, which still I hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Page 183 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war ; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented, from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace ; sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...
Page 210 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Curdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Page 183 - ... its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of peace, and laid in principles purely pacific. I propose, by removing the ground of the difference, and by restoring the former unsuspecting confidence of the colonies in the mother country, to give permanent satisfaction to your people; and (far from a scheme of ruling by discord) to reconcile them to each other in the same act and by the bond of the very same interest which reconciles them to British government.
Page 200 - I am sensible, sir, that all which I have asserted in my detail is admitted in the gross; but that quite a different conclusion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them.
Page 209 - In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Page 223 - ... individuals, or even of bands of men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissensions 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 so this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 217 - ... deserts. If you drive the people from one place, they will carry on their annual tillage, and remove with their flocks and herds to another. Many of the people in the back settlements are already little attached to particular situations. Already they have topped the Appalachian mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain — one vast, rich, level meadow, a square of five hundred miles.
Page 285 - Do you imagine, then, that it is the Land Tax Act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply, which gives you your army ? or, that it Is the Mutiny Bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline ? No ! — surely no ! It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Page 196 - I choose, sir, to enter into these minute and particular details ; because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have here a tendency to sink it. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth ; invention is unfruitful : and imagination cold and barren.