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I pardon something to the spirit of liberty . The use of force alone is but temporary
. Conciliation failing , force remains ; but force failing , no further hope of
conciliation is left . The question is not whether their spirit deserves praise or
blame ...
I pardon something to the spirit of liberty . The use of force alone is but temporary
. Conciliation failing , force remains ; but force failing , no further hope of
conciliation is left . The question is not whether their spirit deserves praise or
blame ...
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30 On the first of these questions we have gained , as I have just taken the liberty
of observing to you , some ground . But I am sensible that a good deal more is
still to be done . Indeed , Sir , to enable us to determine both on the one and the ...
30 On the first of these questions we have gained , as I have just taken the liberty
of observing to you , some ground . But I am sensible that a good deal more is
still to be done . Indeed , Sir , to enable us to determine both on the one and the ...
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I pardon something to the spirit of liberty . I am sensible , Sir , that all which I have
asserted in my 5 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 ...
I pardon something to the spirit of liberty . I am sensible , Sir , that all which I have
asserted in my 5 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 ...
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... by force , or shuffle from them by chicane , what they think the only advantage
worth living for . This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English 35 Colonies
probably than in any other people of the earth Conciliation with the Colonies . 17.
... by force , or shuffle from them by chicane , what they think the only advantage
worth living for . This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English 35 Colonies
probably than in any other people of the earth Conciliation with the Colonies . 17.
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They are therefore not only devoted to liberty , but to liberty according to English
ideas , and on English principles . Abstract liberty , like other mere abstrac15
tions , is not to be found . Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every
nation ...
They are therefore not only devoted to liberty , but to liberty according to English
ideas , and on English principles . Abstract liberty , like other mere abstrac15
tions , is not to be found . Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every
nation ...
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Página 15 - 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.
Página 15 - 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.
Página 73 - ... directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master...
Página 21 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves.
Página 15 - ... through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, — I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Página 22 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. 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 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.
Página 32 - 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.
Página 16 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again, and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.
Página 24 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources — of descent, of form of government, of religion in the Northern Provinces, of manners in the Southern, of education, of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government — from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Burke on Conciliation with the Colonies The academy classics |
| Autor | Edmund Burke |
| Editor | Cornelius Beach Bradley |
| Editora | Allyn and Bacon, 1920 |
| Original de | Universidade de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 27 Fev 2008 |
| Número de páginas | 87 páginas |
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