Sir John Eliot. John Pym. Lord Chatham. Lord Mansfield. Edmund BurkeCharles Kendall Adams Putnam, 1884 - Speeches, addresses, etc., English |
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... contemplation of which led to the revolution that established Anglican liberty on its present basis . Chatham , Mans- field , and Burke elaborated the principles which , on the one hand , drove the American colonies into V.
... contemplation of which led to the revolution that established Anglican liberty on its present basis . Chatham , Mans- field , and Burke elaborated the principles which , on the one hand , drove the American colonies into V.
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... liberty which we enjoy , and to a better understanding of the arduous means by which free political institu- tions have been acquired . UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN , Ann Arbor , November 22 , 1884 . C. K. A. SIR JOHN ELIOT . DURING the ...
... liberty which we enjoy , and to a better understanding of the arduous means by which free political institu- tions have been acquired . UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN , Ann Arbor , November 22 , 1884 . C. K. A. SIR JOHN ELIOT . DURING the ...
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... liberty , has been only second in importance to the Great Charter itself . The petition asked the King's assent to a number of propositions , the most important of which were that no loan or tax should be levied with- out the consent of ...
... liberty , has been only second in importance to the Great Charter itself . The petition asked the King's assent to a number of propositions , the most important of which were that no loan or tax should be levied with- out the consent of ...
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... " Constitu- tional History of England " should call him , as he does , " the most illustrious confessor in the cause of liberty whom that time produced . " SIR JOHN ELIOT . ON THE CONDITION OF ENGLAND UNDER 12 SIR JOHN ELIOT .
... " Constitu- tional History of England " should call him , as he does , " the most illustrious confessor in the cause of liberty whom that time produced . " SIR JOHN ELIOT . ON THE CONDITION OF ENGLAND UNDER 12 SIR JOHN ELIOT .
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... liberty in the people , repletion in treas- ures , restitution of provisions , reparation of ships , preservation of men - our ancient English virtue , I say thus rectified , will secure us . But unless there be a speedy reformation in ...
... liberty in the people , repletion in treas- ures , restitution of provisions , reparation of ships , preservation of men - our ancient English virtue , I say thus rectified , will secure us . But unless there be a speedy reformation in ...
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Page 205 - 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 289 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians, who have no place among us ; a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Page 185 - 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 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, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy...
Page 214 - 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 - I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted in my detail is admitted in the gross, but that quite a different conclusion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen say, is a noble object, — it is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them.
Page 213 - 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.
Page 227 - ... individuals, or even of bands of men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice so this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 221 - ... deserts. If you drive the people from one place, they will carry on their annual tillage, and remove with their flocks and herds to another. Many of the people in the back settlements are already little attached to particular situations. Already they have topped the Appalachian mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain — one vast, rich, level meadow, a square of five hundred miles.
Page 198 - I choose, sir, to enter into these minute and particular details ; because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have here a tendency to sink it. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth ; invention is unfruitful : and imagination cold and barren.