Speech of Edmund Burke on Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the ColoniesB. H. Sanborn & Company, 1899 - 150 strani |
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Acts of Navigation ancient assemblies authority bill British Burke's cause Century chapter character Chester civil colonies and plantations colonists commerce concession CONCILIATION Constitution County Palatine court Crown discontent dispute duties E. J. Payne Edmund Burke EDWARD DOWDEN empire English ernment experience fact favor fisheries force freedom give grant happy honor House of Commons ideas interest Ireland John Morley judge justice King land less Lord Chatham Lord Dunmore Lord North Lord Rockingham Massachusetts Bay mean ment millions mind mode nation nature never noble lord obedience object opinion Parliament parliamentary peace political present principle privileges propose proposition provinces quarrel question reason religion repeal resolution revenue Roman charity says securing slaves speech spirit of liberty Stamp Act taxation taxes temper things thought tion touched and grieved trade laws true Virginia Wales Whig whole wholly WILLIAM MINTO
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Stran 24 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. 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.
Stran 38 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and Curdistan, as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigour of his authority in his centre, is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Stran 60 - 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.
Stran 34 - 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.
Stran 94 - An act to discontinue, in such manner and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading, or shipping of goods, wares and merchandise, at the town, and within the harbor of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America...
Stran 26 - 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.
Stran 19 - We stand where we have an immense view of what is, and what is past. Clouds, indeed, and darkness rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities.
Stran 117 - For that service, for all service, whether of revenue, trade, or empire, my trust is in her interest in the British constitution. My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection.
Stran 82 - That the colonies and plantations of Great Britain in North America, consisting of fourteen separate governments, and containing two millions and upwards of free inhabitants, have not had the liberty and privilege of electing and sending any knights and burgesses, or others, to represent them in the high court of Parliament.
Stran 25 - ... when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.