The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment... Burke's Speeches and Letters on American Affairs - Page 13by Edmund Burke - 1911 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1775 - 868 pages
...made him a (lave. It is the weight qf that preamble, of which you are fofond, and not the weight of duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling...bear. It is then, Sir, upon the principle of this roeafure, arid nothing elfe, that we are at ilFue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American prose literature - 1779 - 610 pages
...highway, it is not the two-pence loft that makes the capital out• rage.' « Would twenty fhillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's ' fortune ? No ! but the payment of half twenty fhillings, on the « principle it was demanded, would have made him a flave.' - See Mr. fiurke's fpeechesin... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1792 - 608 pages
...it wns demanded, would have made him a flave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are fo fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans...bear. It is then, Sir, upon the principle of this meafure, and nothing elfe, that we are at iflue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your Aft... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 604 pages
...feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty Ihillings. Would twenty millings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty fhillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a flave. It is the weight of that... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 596 pages
...feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty fhillings. Would twenty millings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty fhillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a flave. It is the weight of that... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty fhillings. Would twenty millings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ; but the payment of half twenty millings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a flave. It is the weight of that preamble,... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 462 pages
...it was demanded, would have made him a flave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are fo fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans...bear. It is then, Sir, upon the principle of this meafure, and nothing elfe, that we are at iflue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your act... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...robbed of a trifle on the highway, it is not the two-pence lost that makes the capital outrage." " Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune...shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would haTcmadehim a sla've" See Mr. Burke's speeches in 1774 and 1775. BV t Nuva Scotia, Georgia, the Flotidas,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...two-pence lost (hat makes the capital outrage." " Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. lUmpden's fortune ? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings,...on the principle it was demanded, would have made hire tlsve " See Mr. Burke's speeches in 1774 and 1175. BV t Nova Scotia. Georgia, the Florida!, aud... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 610 pages
...is robbed of a trifle on the highway, it is not the two-pence lost that makes the capital outrage. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune?...principle it was demanded, -would have made him a slave.'' See Mr. Burke's speeches in 1774 and 1775. BV * Nova Scotia, Georgia, the Floridas, and Canada. think... | |
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