The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3F. and C. Rivington, sold also by J. Hatchard, 1801 - France |
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... mode of proceeding that will recommend them to the favour of their fellow - citizens . But I confefs , I fhould look rather awkward , if I had been the the very first to produce the new copies of freedom , if I had perfifted in ...
... mode of proceeding that will recommend them to the favour of their fellow - citizens . But I confefs , I fhould look rather awkward , if I had been the the very first to produce the new copies of freedom , if I had perfifted in ...
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... mode of exerting the right of taxation were not wholly unfounded . That right thus exerted is allowed to have had something reprehenfible in it ; something unwife , or fomething grievous ; fince , in the midft of our heat and resentment ...
... mode of exerting the right of taxation were not wholly unfounded . That right thus exerted is allowed to have had something reprehenfible in it ; something unwife , or fomething grievous ; fince , in the midft of our heat and resentment ...
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... mode of govern- ing two millions , we fhall find we have millions more to manage . Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood , than they spread from families to communities , and from villages to nations . I put this ...
... mode of govern- ing two millions , we fhall find we have millions more to manage . Your children do not grow faster from infancy to manhood , than they spread from families to communities , and from villages to nations . I put this ...
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... mode of treating them must have this proportion as its basis ; or it is a reasoning weak , rotten , and sophistical . Mr. Speaker , I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over this great confideration . It is good for us to be here . We ...
... mode of treating them must have this proportion as its basis ; or it is a reasoning weak , rotten , and sophistical . Mr. Speaker , I cannot prevail on myself to hurry over this great confideration . It is good for us to be here . We ...
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... mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are ftill , as it were , but in the griftle , and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood . When I contemplate these things ; when I ...
... mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are ftill , as it were , but in the griftle , and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood . When I contemplate these things ; when I ...
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Page 47 - First, sir, permit me to observe, that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment, but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered, My next objection is its uncertainty.
Page 124 - 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 112 - The Americans will have no interest contrary to the grandeur and glory of England, when they are not oppressed by the weight of it ; and they will rather be inclined to respect the acts of a superintending legislature, when they see them the acts of that power which is itself the security, not the rival, of their secondary importance. In this assurance my mind most perfectly acquiesces, and I confess...
Page 71 - I cannot proceed with a stern, assured, judicial confidence until I find myself in something more like a judicial character. I must have these hesitations as long as I am compelled to recollect that, in my little reading upon...
Page 75 - 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 49 - 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 31 - 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 57 - ... 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 to any ideas of liberty, much less with theirs, has kindled this flame that is ready to consume us.
Page 47 - ... is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness; but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence.
Page 49 - ... whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth ; and this from a great variety of powerful causes...