Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq., on Moving His Resolution for Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22, 1775 |
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... least deviation , in my sentiments . Whether this be owing to an ob- erseverance in error , or to a religious adherence appears to me truth and reason , it is in your judge . arliament , having an enlarged view of objects , ring this ...
... least deviation , in my sentiments . Whether this be owing to an ob- erseverance in error , or to a religious adherence appears to me truth and reason , it is in your judge . arliament , having an enlarged view of objects , ring this ...
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... circ inations ; means ac the reson tion , no deavor , most ma a manne THE firs nature c Colonies pains on self in itants of least 500 the stren believe , a exaggera importan When such a one is disarmed , he is wholly BURKE FOR CO.
... circ inations ; means ac the reson tion , no deavor , most ma a manne THE firs nature c Colonies pains on self in itants of least 500 the stren believe , a exaggera importan When such a one is disarmed , he is wholly BURKE FOR CO.
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... least to be made to comprehend such things . men old enough acta parentum jam legere , et quae tcognoscere virtus . Suppose , Sir , that the angel 25 auspicious youth , foreseeing the many virtues de him one of the most amiable , as he ...
... least to be made to comprehend such things . men old enough acta parentum jam legere , et quae tcognoscere virtus . Suppose , Sir , that the angel 25 auspicious youth , foreseeing the many virtues de him one of the most amiable , as he ...
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... least attempt to wrest by force , or shuffle from them by chicane , what the only advantage worth living for . t of liberty is stronger in the English Colonies han in any other people of the earth , and this at variety of powerful ...
... least attempt to wrest by force , or shuffle from them by chicane , what the only advantage worth living for . t of liberty is stronger in the English Colonies han in any other people of the earth , and this at variety of powerful ...
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... least coeval with most of the governments vails ; that it has generally gone hand in hand and received great favor and every kind of om authority . The Church of England too from her cradle under the nursing care of ernment . But the ...
... least coeval with most of the governments vails ; that it has generally gone hand in hand and received great favor and every kind of om authority . The Church of England too from her cradle under the nursing care of ernment . But the ...
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Page 69 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. 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 16 - 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 31 - ... empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 21 - It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas, they have a vast multitude of slaves. 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 15 - 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 16 - 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 68 - 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 23 - ... is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders. Spain, in her provinces, is, perhaps, not so well obeyed as you are in yours. She complies, too; she submits; she watches times. This is the immutable condition, the eternal law of extensive and detached empire.
Page 69 - Surely no! 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 22 - 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.