Burke on Conciliation with the ColoniesAllyn and Bacon, 1920 - 87 páginas |
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... situation of their affairs . - Slaves as these unfortunate black people are , and dull as all men are from slavery , must they not a little sus- pect the offer of freedom from that very nation which 20 has sold them to their present ...
... situation of their affairs . - Slaves as these unfortunate black people are , and dull as all men are from slavery , must they not a little sus- pect the offer of freedom from that very nation which 20 has sold them to their present ...
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... situations ; but justice is the same , let the judge be in what situation he will . There is , Sir , also a circumstance which convinces me that this mode of criminal proceeding is not , at least in 25 the present stage of our contest ...
... situations ; but justice is the same , let the judge be in what situation he will . There is , Sir , also a circumstance which convinces me that this mode of criminal proceeding is not , at least in 25 the present stage of our contest ...
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... situation , let us seriously and coolly ponder . What is it we have got by all our menaces , which have been many and ferocious ? What advantage have we derived from the penal laws we have passed , and which , for the time , have been ...
... situation , let us seriously and coolly ponder . What is it we have got by all our menaces , which have been many and ferocious ? What advantage have we derived from the penal laws we have passed , and which , for the time , have been ...
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... situation of a people must determine what sort of gov- 25 ernment is fitted for them . That point nothing else can or ought to determine . My idea , therefore , without considering whether we yield as matter of right , or grant as ...
... situation of a people must determine what sort of gov- 25 ernment is fitted for them . That point nothing else can or ought to determine . My idea , therefore , without considering whether we yield as matter of right , or grant as ...
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... situation and ourselves , we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the church , Sursum corda ! We ought to elevate our 5 minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of providence ...
... situation and ourselves , we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the church , Sursum corda ! We ought to elevate our 5 minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of providence ...
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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.