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... freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distin- guishes the whole ; and as an ardent is always a jealous 30 affection , your Colonies become suspicious , restive , and untractable whenever they see the least attempt to ...
... freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distin- guishes the whole ; and as an ardent is always a jealous 30 affection , your Colonies become suspicious , restive , and untractable whenever they see the least attempt to ...
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... freedom . The Colonists emigrated from you when this part of your 10 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 ...
... freedom . The Colonists emigrated from you when this part of your 10 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 ...
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... freedom . Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment , but a kind of rank and privilege . Not seeing there , that freedom , as in countries where it is a common blessing and as broad and general as the air , may be united with much abject ...
... freedom . Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment , but a kind of rank and privilege . Not seeing there , that freedom , as in countries where it is a common blessing and as broad and general as the air , may be united with much abject ...
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... freedom in them would be more acceptable to us . Perhaps ideas of liberty might be desired more reconcilable with an arbi- trary and boundless authority . Perhaps we might wish 20 the Colonists to be persuaded that their liberty is more ...
... freedom in them would be more acceptable to us . Perhaps ideas of liberty might be desired more reconcilable with an arbi- trary and boundless authority . Perhaps we might wish 20 the Colonists to be persuaded that their liberty is more ...
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... freedom itself ; and we never seem to gain a paltry advantage over them in debate without attacking some of those principles , or deriding some of those feelings , for which our ancestors 5 have shed their blood . But , Sir , in wishing ...
... freedom itself ; and we never seem to gain a paltry advantage over them in debate without attacking some of those principles , or deriding some of those feelings , for which our ancestors 5 have shed their blood . But , Sir , in wishing ...
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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 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 - 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 72 - 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 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 23 - 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 vigor of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Page 22 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Page 74 - By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
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.