The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 2C. C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 - Great Britain |
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... oppressed me . I found myself a partaker in a very high trust ; and having no sort of reason to rely on the strength of my natural abilities for the proper execution of that trust , I was obliged to take more than common pains , to ...
... oppressed me . I found myself a partaker in a very high trust ; and having no sort of reason to rely on the strength of my natural abilities for the proper execution of that trust , I was obliged to take more than common pains , to ...
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... oppressed by the weakness of my abilities , as to be rendered insignificant in the eyes of a great trading city ; or whether you choose to give a weight to humble abilities , for the sake of the honest exer- tions with which they are ...
... oppressed by the weakness of my abilities , as to be rendered insignificant in the eyes of a great trading city ; or whether you choose to give a weight to humble abilities , for the sake of the honest exer- tions with which they are ...
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... oppressed with such great and present evils . The more moderate among the opposers of parliamentary concession freely confess , that they hope no good from taxation ; but they apprehend the colonists have further views ; and if this ...
... oppressed with such great and present evils . The more moderate among the opposers of parliamentary concession freely confess , that they hope no good from taxation ; but they apprehend the colonists have further views ; and if this ...
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... oppressive burthen ; and that an Englishman travelling in that country could not go six yards from the high road without being murdered . The march of the human mind is slow . Sir , it was not , until after two hundred years ...
... oppressive burthen ; and that an Englishman travelling in that country could not go six yards from the high road without being murdered . The march of the human mind is slow . Sir , it was not , until after two hundred years ...
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... oppressed England . The people of Chester applied to parliament in a petition penned as I shall read to you . " To the King our sovereign lord , in most humble wise shewn unto your excellent majesty , the inhabitants of your grace's ...
... oppressed England . The people of Chester applied to parliament in a petition penned as I shall read to you . " To the King our sovereign lord , in most humble wise shewn unto your excellent majesty , the inhabitants of your grace's ...
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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?