Burke on Conciliation with the ColoniesAllyn and Bacon, 1920 - 87 páginas |
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... consideration . It is good for us to be here . We stand where we have an immense view of what is , and what is past . Clouds , indeed , and darkness , rest upon the future . Let us , however , before we descend 15 from this noble ...
... consideration . It is good for us to be here . We stand where we have an immense view of what is , and what is past . Clouds , indeed , and darkness , rest upon the future . Let us , however , before we descend 15 from this noble ...
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... consideration concerning this object which serves to determine my opinion on the sort of policy which ought to be pursued in the management of 25 America , even more than its population and its commerce I mean its temper and character ...
... consideration concerning this object which serves to determine my opinion on the sort of policy which ought to be pursued in the management of 25 America , even more than its population and its commerce I mean its temper and character ...
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... considerations we are strongly urged to deter- 30 mine something concerning it . We are called upon to fix some rule and line for our future conduct which may give a little stability to our politics , and prevent the return of such ...
... considerations we are strongly urged to deter- 30 mine something concerning it . We are called upon to fix some rule and line for our future conduct which may give a little stability to our politics , and prevent the return of such ...
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... consideration is to prosecute that spirit in its overt acts as criminal . At this proposition I must pause a moment . The thing seems a great deal too big for my ideas of juris- prudence . It should seem to my way of conceiving such 15 ...
... consideration is to prosecute that spirit in its overt acts as criminal . At this proposition I must pause a moment . The thing seems a great deal too big for my ideas of juris- prudence . It should seem to my way of conceiving such 15 ...
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... considerations have great weight with me when I 15 find things so circumstanced , that I see the same party at once a civil litigant against me in point of right and a culprit before me , while I sit as a criminal judge on acts of his ...
... considerations have great weight with me when I 15 find things so circumstanced , that I see the same party at once a civil litigant against me in point of right and a culprit before me , while I sit as a criminal judge on acts of his ...
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Act of Navigation Act of Parliament ancient Assemblies authority Bill body British Burke Burke's Chester Church of England Colonies and Plantations Colonists commerce Committee concession conciliation consideration County Palatine Crown dignity dispute duty EDMUND BURKE empire England English Constitution experience fact force freedom give grant granting money grievance Holy Roman Empire honor House of Commons House of Lords ideas Ireland judge justice Law Lords legislation Lord Chancellor Majesty Massachusetts Bay matter mean ment Ministers Ministry mode nation nature never noble lord obedience object opinion Parlia Parliamentary passed peace person politics preamble present principle privileges proposed proposition provinces quarrel question reason Resolution revenue scheme secure session slaves sort Speaker speech spirit of liberty Stamp Act statute sure taxation taxes things thought tion touched and grieved trade laws usage vote Wales whilst whole wholly
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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.