The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 2C. C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 - Great Britain |
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... taken its flight for ever , we are at this very instant nearly as free to choose a plan for our American government , as we were on the first day of the session . If , sir , we incline to the side of concilia- tion , we are not at all ...
... taken its flight for ever , we are at this very instant nearly as free to choose a plan for our American government , as we were on the first day of the session . If , sir , we incline to the side of concilia- tion , we are not at all ...
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... taken as an occa- sion of charging us with a predetermined discontent , which nothing could satisfy ; whilst we accused every measure of vigor as cruel , and every proposal of lenity as weak and irresolute . The public , he said , would ...
... taken as an occa- sion of charging us with a predetermined discontent , which nothing could satisfy ; whilst we accused every measure of vigor as cruel , and every proposal of lenity as weak and irresolute . The public , he said , would ...
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... taken the liberty of observing to you ) some ground . But I am sen- sible that a good deal more is still to be done . Indeed , sir , to enable us to determine both on the one and the other of these great questions with a firm and ...
... taken the liberty of observing to you ) some ground . But I am sen- sible that a good deal more is still to be done . Indeed , sir , to enable us to determine both on the one and the other of these great questions with a firm and ...
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... taken for some years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calculation justify myself in placing the number below two millions of inhabitants of our own European blood and color ; besides at least five hundred thousand others ...
... taken for some years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calculation justify myself in placing the number below two millions of inhabitants of our own European blood and color ; besides at least five hundred thousand others ...
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... taken on the export side , at the beginning of this century , that is , in the year 1704 , stood thus : Exports to North America and the West Indies £ 483,265 To Africa • 86,665 569,930 In the year 1772 , which I take as a middle year ...
... taken on the export side , at the beginning of this century , that is , in the year 1704 , stood thus : Exports to North America and the West Indies £ 483,265 To Africa • 86,665 569,930 In the year 1772 , which I take as a middle year ...
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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?