The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 2C. C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 - Great Britain |
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... concerned in the exports from England . If I were to detail the imports , I could shew how many en- joyments they procure , which deceive the burthen of life ; how many materials which invigorate the springs of national industry , and ...
... concerned in the exports from England . If I were to detail the imports , I could shew how many en- joyments they procure , which deceive the burthen of life ; how many materials which invigorate the springs of national industry , and ...
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... concerns the propriety of public conduct in this city . I do not pretend to lay down rules of decorum for other gentlemen . They are best judges of the mode of proceeding that will recommend them to the favor of their fellow - citizens ...
... concerns the propriety of public conduct in this city . I do not pretend to lay down rules of decorum for other gentlemen . They are best judges of the mode of proceeding that will recommend them to the favor of their fellow - citizens ...
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... concern- ing it . We are called upon to fix some rule and line for our future conduct , which may give a little stability to our poli- tics , and prevent the return of such unhappy deliberations as the present . Every such return will ...
... concern- ing it . We are called upon to fix some rule and line for our future conduct , which may give a little stability to our poli- tics , and prevent the return of such unhappy deliberations as the present . Every such return will ...
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... concerned , whenever it is my misfor- tune to continue a difference with the majority of this house . But as the reasons for that difference are my apology for thus troubling you , suffer me to state them in a very few words . I shall ...
... concerned , whenever it is my misfor- tune to continue a difference with the majority of this house . But as the reasons for that difference are my apology for thus troubling you , suffer me to state them in a very few words . I shall ...
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... concern to be made very sensible of the absolute necessity of this total eclipse of liberty . They would more carefully advert to every renewal , and more powerfully resist it . These great deter- No mined measures are not commonly so ...
... concern to be made very sensible of the absolute necessity of this total eclipse of liberty . They would more carefully advert to every renewal , and more powerfully resist it . These great deter- No mined measures are not commonly so ...
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Page 33 - First, the people of the colonies are descendants of Englishmen. 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.
Page 457 - Then ensued a scene of woe, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell.
Page 30 - 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.
Page 48 - If then the removal of the causes of this spirit of American liberty be, for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable; if the ideas of criminal process be inapplicable, or, if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient, what way yet remains? No way is open, but the third and last — to comply with the American spirit as necessary; or, if you please to submit to it, as a necessary evil.
Page 72 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Page 82 - That the colonies and plantations of Great Britain in North America, consisting of fourteen separate governments, and containing two millions and upwards of free inhabitants, have not had the liberty and privilege of electing and sending any knights and burgesses, or others, to represent them in the high court of parliament.
Page 37 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Page 27 - The trade with America alone is now within less than £. 500,000 of being equal to what this great commercial nation, England, carried on at the beginning of this century with the whole world ! If I had taken the largest year of those on your table, it would rather have exceeded. But, it will be said, is not this American trade an unnatural protuberance, that has drawn the juices from the rest of the body ? The reverse. It is the very food that has nourished every -other part into its present magnitude.
Page 68 - An act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town and within the harbor of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America...
Page 49 - What signify all those titles and all those arms? Of what avail are they, when the reason of the thing tells me that the assertion of my title is the loss of my suit, and that I could do nothing but wound myself by the use of my own weapons?