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In this posture , Sir , things stood at the beginning of the session . About that time ,
a worthy member of great 15 Parliamentary experience , who , in the year 1766 ,
filled the chair of the American committee with much ability , took me aside ...
In this posture , Sir , things stood at the beginning of the session . About that time ,
a worthy member of great 15 Parliamentary experience , who , in the year 1766 ,
filled the chair of the American committee with much ability , took me aside ...
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... and that 25 things were hastening towards an incurable alienation of our
Colonies , I confess my caution gave way . I felt this as one of those few moments
in which decorum yields to a higher duty . Public calamity is a mighty leveller ;
and ...
... and that 25 things were hastening towards an incurable alienation of our
Colonies , I confess my caution gave way . I felt this as one of those few moments
in which decorum yields to a higher duty . Public calamity is a mighty leveller ;
and ...
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In this state of things I make no difficulty in affirming that the proposal ought to
originate , from us . Great and acknowledged force is not impaired , either in
effect or in opinion , by an unwillingness to exert itself . The superior power may
offer ...
In this state of things I make no difficulty in affirming that the proposal ought to
originate , from us . Great and acknowledged force is not impaired , either in
effect or in opinion , by an unwillingness to exert itself . The superior power may
offer ...
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... be made to comprehend such things . He was then old enough acta parentum
jam legere , et quæ sit potuit cognoscere virtus . Suppose , Sir , that the angel of
this auspicious youth , foreseeing 25 the many virtues which made him one of the
...
... be made to comprehend such things . He was then old enough acta parentum
jam legere , et quæ sit potuit cognoscere virtus . Suppose , Sir , that the angel of
this auspicious youth , foreseeing 25 the many virtues which made him one of the
...
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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 30 constraints of watchful and suspicious government , but
nature ...
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 30 constraints of watchful and suspicious government , but
nature ...
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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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