Burke's Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies (March 22, 1775). |
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... Assembly blinded him to the terrible evils and abuses which made such proceedings necessary , necessary , if France were not to die , strangled by the bandit - clutch of her monarchy , her aristocracy ( alas , poor word ! ) , and her ...
... Assembly blinded him to the terrible evils and abuses which made such proceedings necessary , necessary , if France were not to die , strangled by the bandit - clutch of her monarchy , her aristocracy ( alas , poor word ! ) , and her ...
Page xxi
... Assembly ( 1791 ) , and in the Letters on a Regi- cide Peace ( some of them not published till after his death ) , we find passages worthy the worst days of that Irish Parliament of whom Swift so touchingly wrote : 66 ' May their God ...
... Assembly ( 1791 ) , and in the Letters on a Regi- cide Peace ( some of them not published till after his death ) , we find passages worthy the worst days of that Irish Parliament of whom Swift so touchingly wrote : 66 ' May their God ...
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... assemblies . Their governments are popular in a high degree : some are merely popular ; in all , the popular representative is the most weighty ; and this share of the people in their ordinary government never fails to inspire them 20 ...
... assemblies . Their governments are popular in a high degree : some are merely popular ; in all , the popular representative is the most weighty ; and this share of the people in their ordinary government never fails to inspire them 20 ...
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... assembly should sit , the humors of the people there , finding all passage 15 through the legal channel stopped , with great violence broke out another way . Some provinces have tried their experiment , as we have tried ours ; and ...
... assembly should sit , the humors of the people there , finding all passage 15 through the legal channel stopped , with great violence broke out another way . Some provinces have tried their experiment , as we have tried ours ; and ...
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... Assemblies for the support of their government in peace , and for public aids in time of war ; to ac- 10 knowledge that this legal competency has had a dutiful and beneficial exercise ; and that experience has shown the benefit of their ...
... Assemblies for the support of their government in peace , and for public aids in time of war ; to ac- 10 knowledge that this legal competency has had a dutiful and beneficial exercise ; and that experience has shown the benefit of their ...
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Page xxi - 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 112 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
Page 101 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 19 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 20 - 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...
Page 20 - ... 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. When I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her...
Page 19 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Page 27 - 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 88 - 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 20 - 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.