Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq., on Moving His Resolution for Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22, 1775 |
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... privilege of granting money 15 ry point of fact , and to prove that the right had knowledged in ancient parchments and blind usages le in a certain body called an House of Commons . vent much farther ; they attempted to prove , and ...
... privilege of granting money 15 ry point of fact , and to prove that the right had knowledged in ancient parchments and blind usages le in a certain body called an House of Commons . vent much farther ; they attempted to prove , and ...
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... privilege . eing there that freedom , as in countries where it is mon blessing and as broad and general as the air , 30 be united with much abject toil , with great misery , all the exterior of servitude , liberty looks , amongst like ...
... privilege . eing there that freedom , as in countries where it is mon blessing and as broad and general as the air , 30 be united with much abject toil , with great misery , all the exterior of servitude , liberty looks , amongst like ...
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... privileges . It would be no less im- e to think of wholly annihilating the popular in which these lawyers sit . The army , by must govern in their place , would be far more to us , not quite so effectual , and perhaps in the s difficult ...
... privileges . It would be no less im- e to think of wholly annihilating the popular in which these lawyers sit . The army , by must govern in their place , would be far more to us , not quite so effectual , and perhaps in the s difficult ...
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... privileges ities . Between these privileges and the supreme thority the line may be extremely nice . Of utes , often , too , very bitter disputes , and much will arise . But though every privilege is an in the case , from the ordinary ...
... privileges ities . Between these privileges and the supreme thority the line may be extremely nice . Of utes , often , too , very bitter disputes , and much will arise . But though every privilege is an in the case , from the ordinary ...
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... privileges of your said alatine , as prejudicial unto the commonwealth , rest , and peace of your Grace's most bounden sub- iting within the same . " ' d Parliament with this audacious address ? -Re- a libel ? Treat it as an affront to ...
... privileges of your said alatine , as prejudicial unto the commonwealth , rest , and peace of your Grace's most bounden sub- iting within the same . " ' d Parliament with this audacious address ? -Re- a libel ? Treat it as an affront to ...
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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.