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... ESTABLISHMENTS , February 11 , 1780 247 265 SPEECH AT BRISTOL PREVIOUS TO THE ELECTION , Septem- ber 6 , 1780 365 SPEECH AT BRISTOL ON DECLINING THE POLL , Septem- ber 9 , 1780 425 SPEECH ON MR . Fox's EAST INDIA BILL , December 1 ...
... ESTABLISHMENTS , February 11 , 1780 247 265 SPEECH AT BRISTOL PREVIOUS TO THE ELECTION , Septem- ber 6 , 1780 365 SPEECH AT BRISTOL ON DECLINING THE POLL , Septem- ber 9 , 1780 425 SPEECH ON MR . Fox's EAST INDIA BILL , December 1 ...
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... establishments . The distinction , which is as nothing with regard to right , is of most weighty consideration in practice . Recover your old ground , and your old tranquillity ; try it ; I am persuaded the Americans will compromise ...
... establishments . The distinction , which is as nothing with regard to right , is of most weighty consideration in practice . Recover your old ground , and your old tranquillity ; try it ; I am persuaded the Americans will compromise ...
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... establishments of their several countries , and have brought with them a temper and character far from alien to that of the people with whom they mixed . Sir , I can perceive , by their manner , that some gentlemen object to the ...
... establishments of their several countries , and have brought with them a temper and character far from alien to that of the people with whom they mixed . Sir , I can perceive , by their manner , that some gentlemen object to the ...
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... establishments . This court is one of the capital securities of the Act of Navigation . The extent of its jurisdiction , indeed , has been in- creased ; but this is altogether as proper , and is , in- deed , on many accounts , more ...
... establishments . This court is one of the capital securities of the Act of Navigation . The extent of its jurisdiction , indeed , has been in- creased ; but this is altogether as proper , and is , in- deed , on many accounts , more ...
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... establishments , she may , I doubt not she will , contribute in modera- tion . I say in moderation ; for she ought not to be permitted to exhaust herself . She ought to be reserved to a war ; the weight of which , with the enemies that ...
... establishments , she may , I doubt not she will , contribute in modera- tion . I say in moderation ; for she ought not to be permitted to exhaust herself . She ought to be reserved to a war ; the weight of which , with the enemies that ...
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Page 181 - I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. .Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 180 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Page 96 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates...
Page 126 - 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 95 - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Page 109 - I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us. Because after all our struggle, whether we will or not, we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances, and not according to our...
Page 133 - The power inadequate to all other things is often more than sufficient for this. I do not look on the direct and immediate power of the colonies to resist our violence as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us, it seems to my poor understanding a little preposterous to make them unserviceable, in order to keep them obedient.
Page 140 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy.
Page 107 - ... of such province or colony, and disposable by Parliament,) and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the civil government and the administration of justice in such province or colony, it will be proper, if such proposal shall be approved by his Majesty...
Page 184 - 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...