Sir John Eliot. John Pym. Lord Chatham. Lord Mansfield. Edmund BurkeCharles Kendall Adams Putnam, 1884 - Speeches, addresses, etc., English |
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... necessary to place before the reader with some fulness the political careers of the speakers and the politi- cal questions at issue when the speeches were made . The illustrative notes at the end of the volumes are designed simply to ...
... necessary to place before the reader with some fulness the political careers of the speakers and the politi- cal questions at issue when the speeches were made . The illustrative notes at the end of the volumes are designed simply to ...
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... necessary money could not be raised , and so he was obliged to call his third Parliament . Eliot and Hampden , though in prison , were elected members ; and the King , not deeming it pru- dent to retain them , ordered their release a ...
... necessary money could not be raised , and so he was obliged to call his third Parliament . Eliot and Hampden , though in prison , were elected members ; and the King , not deeming it pru- dent to retain them , ordered their release a ...
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... necessary or expedient for them . In this consideration , I confess , many a sad thought has frighted me : and that not only in respect of our dangers from abroad , which yet I know are great , as they have been often in this place ...
... necessary or expedient for them . In this consideration , I confess , many a sad thought has frighted me : and that not only in respect of our dangers from abroad , which yet I know are great , as they have been often in this place ...
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... necessary that what I am about to urge seem not an aspersion on the state or imputation on the government , as I have known such mentions misinterpreted . Far is it from me to purpose this , that have none but clear thoughts of the ...
... necessary that what I am about to urge seem not an aspersion on the state or imputation on the government , as I have known such mentions misinterpreted . Far is it from me to purpose this , that have none but clear thoughts of the ...
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... necessary consequence the division in France be- tween the Protestants and their king , of which there is too woeful , too lamentable an experi- ence . It has made an absolute breach between that State and us ; and so entertains us ...
... necessary consequence the division in France be- tween the Protestants and their king , of which there is too woeful , too lamentable an experi- ence . It has made an absolute breach between that State and us ; and so entertains us ...
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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.