Sir John Eliot. John Pym. Lord Chatham. Lord Mansfield. Edmund BurkeCharles Kendall Adams Putnam, 1884 - Speeches, addresses, etc., English |
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... political thought that have shaped the history of Great Britain during the past two hundred and fifty years . The effort has been not so much to make a collection of the most remarkable specimens of English elo- quence , as to bring ...
... political thought that have shaped the history of Great Britain during the past two hundred and fifty years . The effort has been not so much to make a collection of the most remarkable specimens of English elo- quence , as to bring ...
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... 1832 was the most cogent advocacy of what proved to be nothing less than a political revolution ; and Cobden , the inspirer and apostle of Free Trade , enjoys the unique distinction of having reversed the opin- ions of a vi PREFACE .
... 1832 was the most cogent advocacy of what proved to be nothing less than a political revolution ; and Cobden , the inspirer and apostle of Free Trade , enjoys the unique distinction of having reversed the opin- ions of a vi PREFACE .
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... political doctrines of the Liberals in regard to affairs both at home and abroad . It is these speeches , which at one time or another have seemed to go forth as in some sense the authoritative messages of English history to mankind ...
... political doctrines of the Liberals in regard to affairs both at home and abroad . It is these speeches , which at one time or another have seemed to go forth as in some sense the authoritative messages of English history to mankind ...
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... political situation involved in the discussion , but also the right of the orator to be heard . These two objects have made it necessary to place before the reader with some fulness the political careers of the speakers and the politi ...
... political situation involved in the discussion , but also the right of the orator to be heard . These two objects have made it necessary to place before the reader with some fulness the political careers of the speakers and the politi ...
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... of the arduous means by which free political institu- tions have been acquired . UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN , ANN ARBOR , November 22 , 1884 . C. K. A. UNIVERSITY CALIFOR SIR JOHN ELIOT . DURING the second half PREFACE . ix.
... of the arduous means by which free political institu- tions have been acquired . UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN , ANN ARBOR , November 22 , 1884 . C. K. A. UNIVERSITY CALIFOR SIR JOHN ELIOT . DURING the second half PREFACE . ix.
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Page 293 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 216 - 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. Not seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Page 191 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war ; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented, from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace ; sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...
Page 217 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Page 211 - England, Sir, is a nation, which still I hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Page 207 - 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. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and salutary...
Page 238 - If then the removal of the causes of this spirit of American liberty be, for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable ; if the ideas of criminal process be inapplicable, or if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient ; what way yet remains ? No way is open but the third and last — to comply with the American spirit as necessary ; or, if you please, to submit to it as a necessary evil.
Page 126 - You may swell every expense, and every effort, still more extravagantly ; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow ; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles...
Page 293 - England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect' will be their obedience. 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 220 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Curdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.