Representative British Orations: With Introductions and Explanatory Notes, Volume 1Charles Kendall Adams G.P. Putnam's sons, 1884 |
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... AMERICA . HOUSE OF LORDS , NOVEMBER 18 , 1777 . LORD MANSFIELD • 143 LORD MANSFIELD 150 ON THE RIGHT OF ENGLAND TO TAX AMERICA . HOUSE OF LORDS , FEBRUARY 3 , 1766 . EDMUND BURKE 172 MR . BURKE 182 ON MOVING RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION ...
... AMERICA . HOUSE OF LORDS , NOVEMBER 18 , 1777 . LORD MANSFIELD • 143 LORD MANSFIELD 150 ON THE RIGHT OF ENGLAND TO TAX AMERICA . HOUSE OF LORDS , FEBRUARY 3 , 1766 . EDMUND BURKE 172 MR . BURKE 182 ON MOVING RESOLUTIONS FOR CONCILIATION ...
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... America , in further- ance of a design tending to the honor of the kingdom , and the enlargement of his Majesty's dominions . The adventurers in this noble work have for the most part no other support but tobacco , upon which such a ...
... America , in further- ance of a design tending to the honor of the kingdom , and the enlargement of his Majesty's dominions . The adventurers in this noble work have for the most part no other support but tobacco , upon which such a ...
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... America , was reported by Hugh Boyd , and is said to have been corrected by Chatham himself . It is probable that no speeches ever lost more in the process of re- porting than his ; for , more than any one else he was dependent on the ...
... America , was reported by Hugh Boyd , and is said to have been corrected by Chatham himself . It is probable that no speeches ever lost more in the process of re- porting than his ; for , more than any one else he was dependent on the ...
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... without eloquence ; but in him I have seen them united in the highest degree . " His death occurred on the 11th of May , 1778 , in the seventieth year of his age . LORD CHATHAM . ON THE RIGHT OF TAXING AMERICA . LORD CHATHAM . 97.
... without eloquence ; but in him I have seen them united in the highest degree . " His death occurred on the 11th of May , 1778 , in the seventieth year of his age . LORD CHATHAM . ON THE RIGHT OF TAXING AMERICA . LORD CHATHAM . 97.
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... AMERICA . HOUSE OF COMMONS , JANUARY 14 , 1766 . The famous Stamp Act resorted to as a means of raising a revenue from the American Colonies during the Ministry of Mr. George Grenville , was approved on the 22d of March , 1765 . The law ...
... AMERICA . HOUSE OF COMMONS , JANUARY 14 , 1766 . The famous Stamp Act resorted to as a means of raising a revenue from the American Colonies during the Ministry of Mr. George Grenville , was approved on the 22d of March , 1765 . The law ...
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Página 201 - 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.
Página 183 - 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...
Página 210 - 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.
Página 183 - ... its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of peace, and laid in principles purely pacific. I propose, by removing the ground of the difference, and by restoring the former unsuspecting confidence of the colonies in the mother country, to give permanent satisfaction to your people; and (far from a scheme of ruling by discord) to reconcile them to each other in the same act and by the bond of the very same interest which reconciles them to British government.
Página 200 - I am sensible, sir, that all which I have asserted in my detail is admitted in the gross; but that quite a different conclusion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them.
Página 209 - In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Página 223 - ... individuals, or even of bands of men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice so this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Página 217 - ... deserts. If you drive the people from one place, they will carry on their annual tillage, and remove with their flocks and herds to another. Many of the people in the back settlements are already little attached to particular situations. Already they have topped the Appalachian mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain — one vast, rich, level meadow, a square of five hundred miles.
Página 285 - Do you imagine, then, that it is the Land Tax Act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the committee of supply, which gives you your army ? or, that it Is the Mutiny Bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline ? No ! — 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...
Página 196 - I choose, sir, to enter into these minute and particular details ; because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have here a tendency to sink it. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth ; invention is unfruitful : and imagination cold and barren.