Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ. M. Dent & Company, 1911 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina xii
... conduct of which it will be well for us to remember his teaching . Mutato nomine de nobis . Every generation has its George the Thirds and its Lord Norths - slaves of com- placent prejudice and easy - going , short - sighted oppor ...
... conduct of which it will be well for us to remember his teaching . Mutato nomine de nobis . Every generation has its George the Thirds and its Lord Norths - slaves of com- placent prejudice and easy - going , short - sighted oppor ...
Pagina 3
... conduct . It is not , he will give me leave to say , either useless or dangerous . He asserts , that retrospect is not wise ; and the proper , the only proper , subject of inquiry , is " not how we got into this difficulty , but how we ...
... conduct . It is not , he will give me leave to say , either useless or dangerous . He asserts , that retrospect is not wise ; and the proper , the only proper , subject of inquiry , is " not how we got into this difficulty , but how we ...
Pagina 4
... conduct I refer him for a conclusive answer to this objection . I carry my proof irresistibly into the very body of both Ministry and Parliament , not on any general reasoning growing out of collateral matter , but on the conduct of the ...
... conduct I refer him for a conclusive answer to this objection . I carry my proof irresistibly into the very body of both Ministry and Parliament , not on any general reasoning growing out of collateral matter , but on the conduct of the ...
Pagina 8
... conduct of Ministry in this business , upon the mischief of not having large and liberal ideas in the management of great affairs . Never have the servants of the state looked at the whole of your complicated interests in one connected ...
... conduct of Ministry in this business , upon the mischief of not having large and liberal ideas in the management of great affairs . Never have the servants of the state looked at the whole of your complicated interests in one connected ...
Pagina 14
... conduct in respect to America has been governed . And his Majesty relies upon your prudence and fidelity for such an explanation of his measures as may tend to remove the pre- judices which have been excited by the misrepresentations of ...
... conduct in respect to America has been governed . And his Majesty relies upon your prudence and fidelity for such an explanation of his measures as may tend to remove the pre- judices which have been excited by the misrepresentations of ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina iv - WILL BE PLEASED TO SEND FREELY TO ALL APPLICANTS A LIST OF THE PUBLISHED AND PROJECTED VOLUMES...
Pagina 143 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire; and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness, of the human race.
Pagina xiii - 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.
Pagina 110 - 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.
Pagina 89 - Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Pagina 13 - The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.
Pagina 109 - Parliament in which they are not represented. If you mean to satisfy them at all, you must satisfy them with regard to this complaint. If you mean to please any people, you must give them the boon which they ask ; not what you may think better for them, but of a kind totally different.
Pagina 95 - All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance ; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Pagina 93 - Most of the contests in the ancient commonwealths turned primarily on the right of election of magistrates, or on the balance among the several orders of the state. The question of money was not with them so immediate. But in England it was otherwise. On this point of taxes the ablest pens and most eloquent tongues have been exercised; the greatest spirits have acted and suffered.
Pagina 94 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered, in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound.