Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with the American Colonies: Delivered in the House of Commons, March 22, 1775D. Appleton & Company, 1911 |
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... passed around the class . 4. The political parties of the time , and the one in power ; their principles . 5. Some of the prominent statesmen who listened to Burke . 6. The circumstances under which the speech was made . 7. The probable ...
... passed around the class . 4. The political parties of the time , and the one in power ; their principles . 5. Some of the prominent statesmen who listened to Burke . 6. The circumstances under which the speech was made . 7. The probable ...
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... passed away just at a moment when his beloved England was in the midst of a mighty crisis . " " With magnanimous tenderness , Fox proposed that he should be buried among the great dead in Westmin- ster Abbey ; but Burke had left strict ...
... passed away just at a moment when his beloved England was in the midst of a mighty crisis . " " With magnanimous tenderness , Fox proposed that he should be buried among the great dead in Westmin- ster Abbey ; but Burke had left strict ...
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... passed away ; but the force of ideas which Burke mobilized and organized is still taking possession of citadels of civilization in all lands where his language is spoken ; 38 BURKE'S SPEECH ON CONCILIATION z As a literary Life influence.
... passed away ; but the force of ideas which Burke mobilized and organized is still taking possession of citadels of civilization in all lands where his language is spoken ; 38 BURKE'S SPEECH ON CONCILIATION z As a literary Life influence.
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... passed sentence on the trade and sustenance of America , is to be returned to us from the other House . I do confess , I could not help looking on this event as a fortunate omen . I look upon it as a sort of providential favor by which ...
... passed sentence on the trade and sustenance of America , is to be returned to us from the other House . I do confess , I could not help looking on this event as a fortunate omen . I look upon it as a sort of providential favor by which ...
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... passing sentence , unless I could be sure that there were no rights which , in their exercise under certain circumstances , were not the most odious of all wrongs , and the most vexatious of all in- justice . Sir , these considerations ...
... passing sentence , unless I could be sure that there were no rights which , in their exercise under certain circumstances , were not the most odious of all wrongs , and the most vexatious of all in- justice . Sir , these considerations ...
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Page 35 - Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend* to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of -dining. Though equal to all things, for all things unfit: Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit ; For a patriot, too cool ; for a drudge, disobedient ; And too fond of the right, to pursue the expedient. In short, 'twas his fate, unemployed or in place, sir, To eat mutton cold,...
Page 128 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Page 128 - 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, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
Page 127 - 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.
Page 70 - 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 75 - But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance ; it is the dissidence of dissent ; and the protestantism of the protestant religion.
Page 128 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us — a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who, therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Page 127 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship Freedom, they will turn their faces toward you.* The more they multiply, the more friends you will have. The more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience.
Page 31 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honors, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth.
Page 130 - That the colonies and plantations of Great Britain in North America, consisting of fourteen separate governments, and containing two millions and upwards of free inhabitants, have not had the liberty and privilege of electing and sending any knights and burgesses, or others, to represent them in the high court of Parliament.