The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 2C. C. Little & J. Brown, 1839 - Great Britain |
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... nature will incline you to some degree of indul- gence towards human frailty . You will not think it unnatural , that those who have an object depending , which strongly engages their hopes and fears , should be somewhat inclined to ...
... nature will incline you to some degree of indul- gence towards human frailty . You will not think it unnatural , that those who have an object depending , which strongly engages their hopes and fears , should be somewhat inclined to ...
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Edmund Burke. The first thing that we have to consider with regard to the nature of the object is the number of people in the colonies . I have taken for some years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calculation justify ...
Edmund Burke. The first thing that we have to consider with regard to the nature of the object is the number of people in the colonies . I have taken for some years a good deal of pains on that point . I can by no calculation justify ...
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... salutary neglect , a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects , when I see how profitable they have been to us , I feel all 30 SPEECH ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA .
... salutary neglect , a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects , when I see how profitable they have been to us , I feel all 30 SPEECH ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA .
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... nature of a house of com- mons , as an immediate representative of the people ; whether the old records had delivered this oracle or not . They took infinite pains to inculcate , as a fundamental principle , that , in all monarchies ...
... nature of a house of com- mons , as an immediate representative of the people ; whether the old records had delivered this oracle or not . They took infinite pains to inculcate , as a fundamental principle , that , in all monarchies ...
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... nature of man . The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly , and with an higher and more stubborn spirit , attached to liberty than those to the northward . Such were all the ancient commonwealths ...
... nature of man . The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly , and with an higher and more stubborn spirit , attached to liberty than those to the northward . Such were all the ancient commonwealths ...
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Page 58 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Page 6 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold; that they are at the antipodes,- and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South.
Page 13 - Who are you, that should fret and rage and bite the chains of nature? Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire, and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities.
Page 24 - If then the removal of the causes of this spirit of American liberty be, for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable; if the ideas of criminal process be inapplicable, or, if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient, what way yet remains? No way is open, but the third and last — to comply with the American spirit as necessary; or, if you please to submit to it, as a necessary evil.
Page 8 - First, the people of the colonies arc descendants of Englishmen. 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 10 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound.
Page 25 - ... made from your want of right to keep what you grant? Or does it lessen the grace or dignity of relaxing in the exercise of an odious claim because you have your evidence-room full of titles, and your magazines stuffed with arms to enforce them? What signify all those titles and all those arms? Of what avail are they, when the reason of the thing tells me that the assertion of my title is the loss of my suit, and that I could do nothing but wound myself by the use of my own weapons...
Page 60 - An act for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.
Page 19 - The temper and character, which prevail in our colonies, are, I am afraid, unalterable by any human art. We cannot, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation, in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates.