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... Conciliation with the Colonies - Page 74by Edmund Burke - 1894 - 100 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number,...English privileges alone will make it all it can be. In full confidence of this unalterable truth, I now (quod felix faustumgue sit) lay the first stone... | |
| 1775 - 868 pages
...fecurities of your commerce. Do not dream that your letters of office, and your inliruflions, and your us get an American revenue as we have got an American empire. Englifh privifufpending claufes.are the things that hold leges have made it all that it is; Englilh... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...honourable conquefts ; not by deftroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happinefs, of the human race. Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American empire. Englifh privileges have made it all that it is ; Englifh privileges alone will make it all it can be... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1798 - 350 pages
...honourable conquefts ; not by deftroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happinefs, of the human race. Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American empire. Engliffi privileges have made it all that it is ; Englifh privileges alone will make it all it can... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1801 - 368 pages
...honourable conquefts ; not by deflroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happinefs, of the human race. Let us get an American revenue as we have got an. American empire. Englifh privileges have made it all that it is ; Englifh privileges alone will make it all it can be.... | |
| John Adolphus - Great Britain - 1802 - 570 pages
...honourable conquciis ; not by " deftroying, but by promoting, the wealth, " the number, the happincls of the human " race. Let us get an American revenue,...empire. English " privileges have made it all that it is : En^* iiih privileges alone will make it all it can CHAP. « Kr » xxv. '-*~ ~^_y IT appears that... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 452 pages
...only honourable conquefts; not by deftroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happinefs, of the human race. Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American empire. Englifh privileges have made it it all that it is ; Englifh privileges alone will make it all it can... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the •wealth, the...English privileges alone will make it all it can be. In full confidence of this unalterable truth, I now (quod felix faustumque sitj — lay the first stone... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number,...English privileges alone will make it all it can be. In full confidence of this unalterable truth, I now ( 'quod ' felix faustumque sit) — lay the first... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number,...English privileges alone will make it all it can be. In full confidence of this unalterable truth, I now ("quodfelixfaustumque sit) — lay the first stone... | |
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