The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes. Vol. I.[-III.].J. Dodsley, Pall Mall., 1792 - Great Britain |
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... same taxes , and therefore ought not in equity to enjoy the fame benefits with this . I had hopes , that the unhappy phantom of a compulfory equal taxation had haunted us long enough . I do affure you , that until it is entirely ...
... same taxes , and therefore ought not in equity to enjoy the fame benefits with this . I had hopes , that the unhappy phantom of a compulfory equal taxation had haunted us long enough . I do affure you , that until it is entirely ...
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... same policy in enlarging the sphere of a poffible retreat from the flippery royalty of the two great crowns he held . All this was changed by Edward the Fourth . He had no fuch fa- mily partialities , and his policy was the reverse of ...
... same policy in enlarging the sphere of a poffible retreat from the flippery royalty of the two great crowns he held . All this was changed by Edward the Fourth . He had no fuch fa- mily partialities , and his policy was the reverse of ...
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... same kind may in fome degree be found in the Nor- thumberland houfe - book , and other family records . There was fome reafon in antient neceffities , for thefe antient customs . Protection was wanted ; and the domestic tie , though not ...
... same kind may in fome degree be found in the Nor- thumberland houfe - book , and other family records . There was fome reafon in antient neceffities , for thefe antient customs . Protection was wanted ; and the domestic tie , though not ...
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... same thing were done at your door . Fraud , injuftice , oppreffion , peculation , engendered in India , are crimes of the fame blood , family , and caft , with thofe that are born and bred in England . To go no farther than the cafe ...
... same thing were done at your door . Fraud , injuftice , oppreffion , peculation , engendered in India , are crimes of the fame blood , family , and caft , with thofe that are born and bred in England . To go no farther than the cafe ...
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... same authority , is made up to £ . 294,000 , and this £ . 294,000 , made up of principal and intereft , is crowned with a new interest of twelve per cent . What the grand loan , the bribery loan of 1777 , may be , is amongst the deepest ...
... same authority , is made up to £ . 294,000 , and this £ . 294,000 , made up of principal and intereft , is crowned with a new interest of twelve per cent . What the grand loan , the bribery loan of 1777 , may be , is amongst the deepest ...
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Page 95 - 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 94 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you. This is the commodity of price of which you have the monopoly.
Page 90 - Compare the two. This I offer to give you is plain and simple. The other full of perplexed and intricate mazes. This is mild; that harsh. This is found by experience effectual for its purposes; the other is a new project. This is universal; the other calculated for certain colonies only. This is immediate in its conciliatory operation; the other remote, contingent, full of hazard. Mine is what becomes the dignity of a ruling people; gratuitous, unconditional, and not held out as matter of bargain...
Page 44 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources; of descent; of form of government; of religion in the northern provinces; of manners in the southern; of education; of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government; from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up. It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies, and increased with the increase of their wealth; a spirit, that unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England, which, however lawful, is not reconcilable...
Page 44 - ... of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders. Spain, in her provinces, is, perhaps, not so well obeyed as you are in yours. She complies too, she submits, she watches times. This is the immutable condition, the eternal law, of extensive and detached empire.
Page 25 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion; and ever will be so, as long as the world //'endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last, is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart is an healing and cementing principle.
Page 41 - The colonists left England when this spirit was high, and in the emigrants was the highest of all ; and even that stream of foreigners which has been constantly flowing into these colonies has, for the greatest part, been composed of dissenters from 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.
Page 331 - India charter is a charter to establish monopoly, and to create power. Political power and commercial monopoly are not the rights of men ; and the rights to them derived from charters, it is fallacious and sophistical to call
Page 66 - With a preamble stating the entire and perfect rights of the crown of England, it gave to the Welsh all the rights and privileges of English subjects. A political order was established; the military power gave way to the civil; the marches were turned into counties. But that a nation should have a right to English liberties, and yet no share at all in the fundamental security of these liberties, the grant of their own property...
Page 420 - These thoughts will support a mind, which only exists for honour, under the burthen of temporary reproach. He is doing indeed a great good ; such as rarely falls to the lot, and almost as rarely coincides with the desires, of any man. Let him use his time. Let him give the whole length of the reins to his benevolence. He is now on a great eminence, where the eyes of mankind are turned to him. He may live long, he may do much. But here is the summit. He never can exceed what he does this day.