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... the stole or his treasurer , the steward of the household or his retinue , the board of green cloth , or the board of works . It is easy to see how such parliamentarians as these would regard appeals X INTRODUCTION .
... the stole or his treasurer , the steward of the household or his retinue , the board of green cloth , or the board of works . It is easy to see how such parliamentarians as these would regard appeals X INTRODUCTION .
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Edmund Burke Daniel Varney Thompson. to see how such parliamentarians as these would regard appeals to magnanimity as in politics the truest wisdom , and how much they would listen to , and understand , of the profound , the historical ...
Edmund Burke Daniel Varney Thompson. to see how such parliamentarians as these would regard appeals to magnanimity as in politics the truest wisdom , and how much they would listen to , and understand , of the profound , the historical ...
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... parliamentary career . From the height of reason we find him descending to the blindest prejudice ; instead of the nobility of an historical philosophy we see him employing personal abuse ; for a never - failing stream of hopeful ...
... parliamentary career . From the height of reason we find him descending to the blindest prejudice ; instead of the nobility of an historical philosophy we see him employing personal abuse ; for a never - failing stream of hopeful ...
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... . North Ministry . Burke Agent for New York . Parliamentary Debates reported . 1771 . 1773 . Boston Tea Party . Burke visits France .. 1774. Speech on American Taxation . Burke member for Bristol xl A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE .
... . North Ministry . Burke Agent for New York . Parliamentary Debates reported . 1771 . 1773 . Boston Tea Party . Burke visits France .. 1774. Speech on American Taxation . Burke member for Bristol xl A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE .
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... parliamentary attention . My little share in this great deliberation oppressed me . I found myself a partaker in a very high trust ; and having no sort of 10 reason to rely on the strength of my natural abilities for the proper ...
... parliamentary attention . My little share in this great deliberation oppressed me . I found myself a partaker in a very high trust ; and having no sort of 10 reason to rely on the strength of my natural abilities for the proper ...
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Page 80 - ... directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master...
Page 16 - Neither the perseverance of Holland nor the activity of France nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people — a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page xv - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind...
Page 40 - 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. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Page xxv - 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.
Page 78 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 16 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude, and pursue their gigantic game, along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 24 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. 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 23 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies, which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
Page 79 - 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.