The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes. Vol. I.[-III.].J. Dodsley, Pall Mall., 1792 |
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... regard to our American measures . Thus much , however , I think it not amifs to lay before you ; That I am not , I hope , apt to take up or lay down my opinions lightly . I have held , and ever shall maintain , to the best of my power ...
... regard to our American measures . Thus much , however , I think it not amifs to lay before you ; That I am not , I hope , apt to take up or lay down my opinions lightly . I have held , and ever shall maintain , to the best of my power ...
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... regard to the nature of the object is - the number of people in the colonies . I have taken for fome years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calculation juftify myself in placing the number below two millions of ...
... regard to the nature of the object is - the number of people in the colonies . I have taken for fome years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calculation juftify myself in placing the number below two millions of ...
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... regard to this complaint . If you mean to please any people , you must give them the boon which they ask ; not what you may think better for them , but of a kind totally different . Such an act may be a wife regulation , but it is no ...
... regard to this complaint . If you mean to please any people , you must give them the boon which they ask ; not what you may think better for them , but of a kind totally different . Such an act may be a wife regulation , but it is no ...
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... regard to America . By another act , where one of the parties was an Englishman , they ordained , that his trial should be always by English . They made acts to restrain trade , as you do ; and they prevented the Welsh from the ufe of ...
... regard to America . By another act , where one of the parties was an Englishman , they ordained , that his trial should be always by English . They made acts to restrain trade , as you do ; and they prevented the Welsh from the ufe of ...
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... regard to the county palatine of Durham , which is my fourth example . This county had long lain out of the pale of free legislation . So fcrupulously was the example of Chester followed , that the style of the preamble is nearly the ...
... regard to the county palatine of Durham , which is my fourth example . This county had long lain out of the pale of free legislation . So fcrupulously was the example of Chester followed , that the style of the preamble is nearly the ...
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Página 95 - 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 94 - 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 90 - Compare the two. This I offer to give you is plain and simple. The other full of perplexed and intricate mazes. This is mild; that harsh. This is found by experience effectual for its purposes; the other is a new project. This is universal; the other calculated for certain colonies only. This is immediate in its conciliatory operation; the other remote, contingent, full of hazard. Mine is what becomes the dignity of a ruling people; gratuitous, unconditional, and not held out as matter of bargain...
Página 44 - 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. It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies, and increased with the increase of their wealth; a spirit, that unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England, which, however lawful, is not reconcilable...
Página 44 - ... of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders. Spain, in her provinces, is, perhaps, not so well obeyed as you are in yours. She complies too, she submits, she watches times. This is the immutable condition, the eternal law, of extensive and detached empire.
Página 25 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion; and ever will be so, as long as the world //'endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last, is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart is an healing and cementing principle.
Página 41 - The colonists left England when this spirit was high, and in the emigrants was the highest of all ; and even that stream of foreigners which has been constantly flowing into these colonies has, for the greatest part, been composed of dissenters from the establishments of their several countries, and have brought with them a temper and character far from alien to that of the people with whom they mixed.
Página 331 - India charter is a charter to establish monopoly, and to create power. Political power and commercial monopoly are not the rights of men ; and the rights to them derived from charters, it is fallacious and sophistical to call
Página 66 - 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 420 - These thoughts will support a mind, which only exists for honour, under the burthen of temporary reproach. He is doing indeed a great good ; such as rarely falls to the lot, and almost as rarely coincides with the desires, of any man. Let him use his time. Let him give the whole length of the reins to his benevolence. He is now on a great eminence, where the eyes of mankind are turned to him. He may live long, he may do much. But here is the summit. He never can exceed what he does this day.