The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3F. & J. Rivington, 1852 - Great Britain |
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... sure , and so very easy , he might at least , to preserve consistency , have looked a few pages back , and ( no un- pleasing thing to him ) listened to himself , where he says , " that the most successful enterprise could not compensate ...
... sure , and so very easy , he might at least , to preserve consistency , have looked a few pages back , and ( no un- pleasing thing to him ) listened to himself , where he says , " that the most successful enterprise could not compensate ...
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... sure therefore that I admit too much when I admit the navy debt carrying interest , after the creation of the navy annuities in the year 1763 , to have been 2,200,0007 . Add the exchequer bills ; and the whole unfunded debt carrying ...
... sure therefore that I admit too much when I admit the navy debt carrying interest , after the creation of the navy annuities in the year 1763 , to have been 2,200,0007 . Add the exchequer bills ; and the whole unfunded debt carrying ...
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... sure that every one must expect from him some account how this monstrous charge came to continue ever since the war , when it was clearly unnecessary ; how all those successions of ministers ( his own included ) came to pay it , and why ...
... sure that every one must expect from him some account how this monstrous charge came to continue ever since the war , when it was clearly unnecessary ; how all those successions of ministers ( his own included ) came to pay it , and why ...
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... sure money , amounts to no more than a sum of 300,000l . a year . This , he thinks , will do the business completely , and render us flourishing at home , and respectable abroad . If the option between glory and shame , if our salvation ...
... sure money , amounts to no more than a sum of 300,000l . a year . This , he thinks , will do the business completely , and render us flourishing at home , and respectable abroad . If the option between glory and shame , if our salvation ...
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... sure of mending it , is a certain method of lessening it in the public opinion . Of this irreverent opinion of parliament , the author himself complains in one part of his book ; and he endeavours to increase it in the other . Has he ...
... sure of mending it , is a certain method of lessening it in the public opinion . Of this irreverent opinion of parliament , the author himself complains in one part of his book ; and he endeavours to increase it in the other . Has he ...
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Page 261 - 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.
Page 254 - I, that when great honors and great emoluments do not win over this knowledge to the service of the state, it is a formidable adversary to government. If the spirit be not tamed and broken by these happy methods, it is stubborn and litigious. Abeunt studio, in mores.
Page 255 - The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance, in weakening government. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution : and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point, is enough to defeat a whole system.
Page 242 - It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in 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...
Page 289 - Act which raises your revenue? that it is the annual vote in the Committee of Supply which gives you your army? or that it is the Mutiny Bill which inspires it with bravery and discipline? No! surely no! It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution...
Page 290 - ... conquests, not by destroying but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race. Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American empire. English privileges have made it all that it is; English privileges alone will make it all it can be.
Page 252 - ... without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound. I do not say whether they were right or wrong in applying your general arguments to their own case. It is not easy indeed to make a monopoly of theorems and corollaries. The fact...
Page 175 - An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America ; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs upon the exportation from this kingdom of 'coffee and...
Page 291 - That it may be proper to repeal an act, made in the seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for granting certain duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America...
Page 183 - ... Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear.