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... Ireland , in 1729. His father was a successful lawyer and a Protestant , his mother , a Catholic . At the age of twelve , he became a pupil of Abraham Shackleton , a Quaker , who had been teach- ing some fifteen years at Ballitore , a ...
... Ireland , in 1729. His father was a successful lawyer and a Protestant , his mother , a Catholic . At the age of twelve , he became a pupil of Abraham Shackleton , a Quaker , who had been teach- ing some fifteen years at Ballitore , a ...
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... Ireland in the employ- ment of William Hamilton , but at the end of that time returned , chagrined and disgusted with his would - be patron , who utterly failed to recognize Burke's worth , and persisted in the most unreason- able ...
... Ireland in the employ- ment of William Hamilton , but at the end of that time returned , chagrined and disgusted with his would - be patron , who utterly failed to recognize Burke's worth , and persisted in the most unreason- able ...
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... Ireland , and America gave excel- lent opportunity for an exhibition of English states- manship , but in each case the policy pursued was dictated , not by a clear perception of what was needed . in these countries , but by narrow ...
... Ireland , and America gave excel- lent opportunity for an exhibition of English states- manship , but in each case the policy pursued was dictated , not by a clear perception of what was needed . in these countries , but by narrow ...
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... Ireland , Wales , Chester , and Durham . ― O Ireland , before the English conquest , though never 60 BURKE.
... Ireland , Wales , Chester , and Durham . ― O Ireland , before the English conquest , though never 60 BURKE.
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... Ireland was made im- mediately a partaker . This benefit of English laws and liberties , I confess , was not at first extended to 20 all Ireland . Mark the consequence . English au- thority and English liberties had exactly the same ...
... Ireland was made im- mediately a partaker . This benefit of English laws and liberties , I confess , was not at first extended to 20 all Ireland . Mark the consequence . English au- thority and English liberties had exactly the same ...
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Page 54 - The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Page 33 - 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 23 - 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...
Page 107 - English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English constitution which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies, every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Page 19 - Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...
Page 31 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Page 22 - 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 107 - 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 32 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful, and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the Congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Page 23 - America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who understand the military art will of course have some predilection for it. Those who wield the thunder of the state may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms.