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... interest which attaches to a current day topic . It is not merely that the subject is one which naturally attracts American readers from its association with an important crisis in our history . It is that Burke's arguments have still a ...
... interest which attaches to a current day topic . It is not merely that the subject is one which naturally attracts American readers from its association with an important crisis in our history . It is that Burke's arguments have still a ...
Page vii
... interest centering in this document has , in the usage of American speakers and writers , tended steadily to shift ... interests ; sometimes of sharp and decisive action , more frequently of insensible but irresistible drifting upon the ...
... interest centering in this document has , in the usage of American speakers and writers , tended steadily to shift ... interests ; sometimes of sharp and decisive action , more frequently of insensible but irresistible drifting upon the ...
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... interest outside of its own class ; still more because of its exclusion from the great field of finance and taxation ; and , most of all , because in the end it can always be forced to assent to the will of the Commons by the simple ...
... interest outside of its own class ; still more because of its exclusion from the great field of finance and taxation ; and , most of all , because in the end it can always be forced to assent to the will of the Commons by the simple ...
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... interest which reconciles them to British government . My idea is nothing more . Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion ; and ever will be so , as long as the world endures . Plain good intention , which is as 35 easily ...
... interest which reconciles them to British government . My idea is nothing more . Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion ; and ever will be so , as long as the world endures . Plain good intention , which is as 35 easily ...
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... interests and feelings of the human race . You could at no time do so without guilt ; and be 15 assured you will not ... interest of his country , formed by a long course of enlightened and discriminating experience . Sir , I should be ...
... interests and feelings of the human race . You could at no time do so without guilt ; and be 15 assured you will not ... interest of his country , formed by a long course of enlightened and discriminating experience . Sir , I should be ...
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Page 15 - 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. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries; no climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 15 - 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 73 - ... 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...
Page 21 - 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.
Page 15 - ... through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; 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.
Page 22 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. 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 15 - 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 32 - 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 16 - 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 24 - 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.