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... our for- mer mode of exerting the right of taxation were not wholly unfounded . That right thus exerted is allowed . 35 to have something reprehensible in it , something unwise , or something grievous ; since , in the midst of 6 Burke .
... our for- mer mode of exerting the right of taxation were not wholly unfounded . That right thus exerted is allowed . 35 to have something reprehensible in it , something unwise , or something grievous ; since , in the midst of 6 Burke .
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... taxes the ablest pens , and most eloquent tongues , have been exercised ; the greatest spirits have acted and suffered . In order to give the fullest satisfac- tion concerning the importance of this point , it was not 30 only necessary ...
... taxes the ablest pens , and most eloquent tongues , have been exercised ; the greatest spirits have acted and suffered . In order to give the fullest satisfac- tion concerning the importance of this point , it was not 30 only necessary ...
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... taxation . Some gentlemen startle - but it is true ; I put it totally out of the question . It is less than nothing in my consideration . I do not indeed won- 10 der , nor will you , Sir , that gentlemen of profound learn- ing are fond ...
... taxation . Some gentlemen startle - but it is true ; I put it totally out of the question . It is less than nothing in my consideration . I do not indeed won- 10 der , nor will you , Sir , that gentlemen of profound learn- ing are fond ...
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... taxation , but they apprehend the Colonists have further views ; and if this point were conceded , they would in- 20 stantly attack the trade laws . These gentlemen are convinced that this was the intention from the beginning , and the ...
... taxation , but they apprehend the Colonists have further views ; and if this point were conceded , they would in- 20 stantly attack the trade laws . These gentlemen are convinced that this was the intention from the beginning , and the ...
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... taxes to a clear admission of the futility of the scheme ; then , Sir , the sleeping trade laws revive from their trance , and this useless tax- ation is to be kept sacred , not for its own sake , but as a 15 counter - guard and ...
... taxes to a clear admission of the futility of the scheme ; then , Sir , the sleeping trade laws revive from their trance , and this useless tax- ation is to be kept sacred , not for its own sake , but as a 15 counter - guard and ...
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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.