Sir John Eliot. John Pym. Lord Chatham. Lord Mansfield. Edmund BurkeCharles Kendall Adams Putnam, 1884 - Speeches, addresses, etc., English |
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... questions at issue when the speeches were made . The illustrative notes at the end of the volumes are designed simply to assist the reader in understanding such statements and allusions as might otherwise viii PREFACE .
... questions at issue when the speeches were made . The illustrative notes at the end of the volumes are designed simply to assist the reader in understanding such statements and allusions as might otherwise viii PREFACE .
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... question to be settled of not less significance . That question was whether the English Constitution was to be developed in the direction of its traditional methods , or whether the government and peo- ple should adopt the reactionary ...
... question to be settled of not less significance . That question was whether the English Constitution was to be developed in the direction of its traditional methods , or whether the government and peo- ple should adopt the reactionary ...
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... question . The struggle did not be- come earnest during the reign of Elizabeth , but it cost Charles I. his head , and the Stuart dynasty its right to the throne . For three generations the kings were willing to stake . every thing in ...
... question . The struggle did not be- come earnest during the reign of Elizabeth , but it cost Charles I. his head , and the Stuart dynasty its right to the throne . For three generations the kings were willing to stake . every thing in ...
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... question , and in the end to resist . Under the maxim of the English Govern- ment , that " the King can do no wrong , " there is but one way of securing redress , in case of an undue exercise of royal power . As the Con- stitution ...
... question , and in the end to resist . Under the maxim of the English Govern- ment , that " the King can do no wrong , " there is but one way of securing redress , in case of an undue exercise of royal power . As the Con- stitution ...
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... the Speaker to put any question . These two were practiced the last day of the last Parliament ( and , as was alleged , by his Majesty's command ) ; and both of them trench upon the very life and being of parliaments ; for 44 JOHN PYM .
... the Speaker to put any question . These two were practiced the last day of the last Parliament ( and , as was alleged , by his Majesty's command ) ; and both of them trench upon the very life and being of parliaments ; for 44 JOHN PYM .
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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.