Burke's Speeches and Letters on American AffairsJ. M. Dent & Company, 1911 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina ix
... scheme of freedom is made up of pride , perverseness , and insolence . They feel themselves in a state of thraldom , they imagine that their souls are cooped and cabined in , unless they have some men , or some body of men , dependent ...
... scheme of freedom is made up of pride , perverseness , and insolence . They feel themselves in a state of thraldom , they imagine that their souls are cooped and cabined in , unless they have some men , or some body of men , dependent ...
Pagina 4
... scheme of taxation and thereby filled the minds of the colonists with new jealousy and all sorts of apprehensions , then it was that they quarrelled with the old taxes as well as the new , then it was , and not till then , that they ...
... scheme of taxation and thereby filled the minds of the colonists with new jealousy and all sorts of apprehensions , then it was that they quarrelled with the old taxes as well as the new , then it was , and not till then , that they ...
Pagina 17
... scheme of taxing , or you must send the ministers tarred and feathered to America who dared to hold out the royal faith for a renun- ciation of all taxes for revenue . Them you must punish or this faith you must preserve . The ...
... scheme of taxing , or you must send the ministers tarred and feathered to America who dared to hold out the royal faith for a renun- ciation of all taxes for revenue . Them you must punish or this faith you must preserve . The ...
Pagina 23
... scheme of a colony revenue by British authority appeared therefore to the Americans in the light of a great ... schemes of American revenue say that the commercial restraint is full as hard a law for America to live under . I think so ...
... scheme of a colony revenue by British authority appeared therefore to the Americans in the light of a great ... schemes of American revenue say that the commercial restraint is full as hard a law for America to live under . I think so ...
Pagina 26
... scheme of government new in many things seemed to have been adopted . I saw , or I thought I saw , several symptoms of a great change whilst I sat in your gallery , a good while before I had the honour of a seat in this House . At that ...
... scheme of government new in many things seemed to have been adopted . I saw , or I thought I saw , several symptoms of a great change whilst I sat in your gallery , a good while before I had the honour of a seat in this House . At that ...
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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.