Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq., on Moving His Resolution for Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22, 1775 |
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... wish the Colonists ided that their liberty is more secure when held them by us , as their guardians during a per- › rity , than with any part of it in their own › question is , not whether their spirit deserves ame , but - what , in the ...
... wish the Colonists ided that their liberty is more secure when held them by us , as their guardians during a per- › rity , than with any part of it in their own › question is , not whether their spirit deserves ame , but - what , in the ...
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... wishes of grave and solemn poli- 10 , Sir , it seems almost desperate to think of any e course for changing the moral causes ( and not 15 sy to remove the natural ) which produce preju- reconcilable to the late exercise of our authority ...
... wishes of grave and solemn poli- 10 , Sir , it seems almost desperate to think of any e course for changing the moral causes ( and not 15 sy to remove the natural ) which produce preju- reconcilable to the late exercise of our authority ...
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... regulatin chusetts proper t year of Act for Dominio I wish depende the righ was pas more pa Boston towns , f blocked session d The sam extend e ns in America ; for allowing a drawback of the BURKE TEXT BURKE'S SPEECH NOTES PAGE.
... regulatin chusetts proper t year of Act for Dominio I wish depende the righ was pas more pa Boston towns , f blocked session d The sam extend e ns in America ; for allowing a drawback of the BURKE TEXT BURKE'S SPEECH NOTES PAGE.
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... wish absolutely to repeal , I would by all means alter it , as several of its provisions tend to the n of all public and private justice . Such , among the power in the Governor to change the sheriff easure , and to make a new returning ...
... wish absolutely to repeal , I would by all means alter it , as several of its provisions tend to the n of all public and private justice . Such , among the power in the Governor to change the sheriff easure , and to make a new returning ...
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... wish to take away ; they are in es proper establishments . This Court is one of tal securities of the Act of Navigation . The ex- 25 its jurisdiction , indeed , has been increased ; but altogether as proper , and is indeed on many ac ...
... wish to take away ; they are in es proper establishments . This Court is one of tal securities of the Act of Navigation . The ex- 25 its jurisdiction , indeed , has been increased ; but altogether as proper , and is indeed on many ac ...
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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.