The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3F & C. Rivington, 1803 |
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... - luable . We are members in a great and ancient monarchy ; and we must preserve religiously , the true legal rights of the fovereign , which form the C3 key- 22 SPEECH AT THE CONCLUSION , & c . key CONCLUSION OF THE POLL . 21.
... - luable . We are members in a great and ancient monarchy ; and we must preserve religiously , the true legal rights of the fovereign , which form the C3 key- 22 SPEECH AT THE CONCLUSION , & c . key CONCLUSION OF THE POLL . 21.
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... true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us . Because after all our struggle , whether we will or not , we muft govern America , according to that nature , and to those circum- stances ; and not ...
... true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us . Because after all our struggle , whether we will or not , we muft govern America , according to that nature , and to those circum- stances ; and not ...
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... true number . There is no occafion to exaggerate , where plain truth is of fo much weight and importance . But whether I put the present numbers too high or too low , is a matter of little moment . Such is the strength with which ...
... true number . There is no occafion to exaggerate , where plain truth is of fo much weight and importance . But whether I put the present numbers too high or too low , is a matter of little moment . Such is the strength with which ...
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... old age , with a true filial piety , with a Roman charity , had not put the full breaft of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent . As As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from 44 SPEECH ON.
... old age , with a true filial piety , with a Roman charity , had not put the full breaft of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent . As As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from 44 SPEECH ON.
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... true temper of their minds , and the direction which this fpirit takes , it will not be amifs to lay open fomewhat more largely . First , the people of the colonies are defcendents of Englishmen . England , Sir , is a nation , which ...
... true temper of their minds , and the direction which this fpirit takes , it will not be amifs to lay open fomewhat more largely . First , the people of the colonies are defcendents of Englishmen . England , Sir , is a nation , which ...
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Página 126 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us, a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Página 49 - 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 124 - 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. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly.
Página 49 - ... whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them 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 colonies probably than in any other people of the earth ; and this from a great variety of powerful causes...
Página 75 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Página 380 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the...
Página 358 - Applaud us when we run; console us when we fall; cheer us when we recover; but let us pass on — for God's sake let us pass on.
Página 86 - With a preamble stating the entire and perfect rights of the crown of England, it gave to the Welsh all the rights and privileges of English subjects. A political order was established; the military power gave way to the civil; the marches were turned into counties. But that a nation should have a right to English liberties, and yet no share at all in the fundamental security of these liberties, the grant of their own property...
Página 52 - If anything were wanting to this necessary operation of the form of government, religion would have given it a complete effect. Religion, always a principle of energy, in this new people is no way worn out or impaired; and their mode of professing it is also one main cause of this free spirit. The people are Protestants, and of that kind which is the most adverse to all implicit submission of mind and opinion.
Página 110 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent Act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take, we remit some rights that we may enjoy others, and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.