British Eloquence, Volume 1Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1884 - Speeches, addresses, etc., English |
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... proposed , it needs no demonstration . The whole king- dom is a proof . And for the exhausting of our treasures , that oppression speaks it . What waste of our provisions , what consumption of our ships , what destruction of our men ...
... proposed , it needs no demonstration . The whole king- dom is a proof . And for the exhausting of our treasures , that oppression speaks it . What waste of our provisions , what consumption of our ships , what destruction of our men ...
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... propose a reform of the House of Commons , as a result of which there might be something like a true representation of popular interests . The other source of his power was in the methods and characteristics of his elo- quence . He was ...
... propose a reform of the House of Commons , as a result of which there might be something like a true representation of popular interests . The other source of his power was in the methods and characteristics of his elo- quence . He was ...
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... to - day . I was a stranger to the tenor of his Majesty's speech , and the 98 proposed address , till I heard them read in this ON THE RIGHT OF TAXING AMERICA HOUSE OF COMMONS, JANUARY 14, 1766 LORD CHATHAM PAGE I 13 27 37 85.
... to - day . I was a stranger to the tenor of his Majesty's speech , and the 98 proposed address , till I heard them read in this ON THE RIGHT OF TAXING AMERICA HOUSE OF COMMONS, JANUARY 14, 1766 LORD CHATHAM PAGE I 13 27 37 85.
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Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden. proposed address , till I heard them read in this House . Unconnected and unconsulted , I have not the means of information . I am fearful of offending through mistake , and therefore beg to be indulged ...
Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden. proposed address , till I heard them read in this House . Unconnected and unconsulted , I have not the means of information . I am fearful of offending through mistake , and therefore beg to be indulged ...
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... proposed to tax America , I asked the House if any gentleman would object to the right ; I repeatedly asked it , and no man would attempt to deny it . Protec- tion and obedience are reciprocal . Great Brit- ain protects America ...
... proposed to tax America , I asked the House if any gentleman would object to the right ; I repeatedly asked it , and no man would attempt to deny it . Protec- tion and obedience are reciprocal . Great Brit- ain protects America ...
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Page 211 - 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 191 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war ; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations ; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire ; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit...
Page 196 - 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 500,000 others, who form no inconsiderable part of the strength and opulence of the whole. This, sir, is, I believe, about the true number. There is no occasion to exaggerate where plain truth is of so much weight and importance. But whether I put the present numbers too high or too low, is a matter of little moment. Such is the strength with which population...
Page 217 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Page 217 - In no country, perhaps, in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavor to obtain some smattering in that science.
Page 220 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Curdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at 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 202 - Clouds, indeed, and darkness rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Bathurst might remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age at least to be made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough...
Page 206 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet, the spirit by -which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration. And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England...
Page 191 - ... its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of peace, and laid in principles purely pacific. I propose, by removing the ground of the difference, and by restoring the former unsuspecting confidence of the colonies in the mother country, to give permanent satisfaction to your people; and (far from a scheme of ruling by discord) to reconcile them to each other in the same act and by the bond of the very same interest which reconciles them to British government.
Page 218 - 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.