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... carrying a Parlia- mentary audience with him . He was too severe to persuade , and too bold to convince , a body to most of whom his philosophy was a stumblingblock and his statesmanship foolishness . In his latter years he commanded so ...
... carrying a Parlia- mentary audience with him . He was too severe to persuade , and too bold to convince , a body to most of whom his philosophy was a stumblingblock and his statesmanship foolishness . In his latter years he commanded so ...
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... carried out , as he probably would had he lived , the idea of parcelling out America into Royal Governments , the foundation would have been laid of a reform which , supposing a little less public spirit than actually existed among the ...
... carried out , as he probably would had he lived , the idea of parcelling out America into Royal Governments , the foundation would have been laid of a reform which , supposing a little less public spirit than actually existed among the ...
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... rights of the nation ; and here , too , is the system by which these rights have always been carried into effect . That system has been 1 1 p . 39 . deranged by an interested and wicked faction , and we XX INTRODUCTION .
... rights of the nation ; and here , too , is the system by which these rights have always been carried into effect . That system has been 1 1 p . 39 . deranged by an interested and wicked faction , and we XX INTRODUCTION .
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... carry back the imagination over a long tract of time , and feed it with the contemplation of remote events : because it is natural to think highly of that which inspires us with high thoughts , which has been connected for many ...
... carry back the imagination over a long tract of time , and feed it with the contemplation of remote events : because it is natural to think highly of that which inspires us with high thoughts , which has been connected for many ...
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... carried on without intermission to the end . Once , in the vigour of his manhood , his constitution sank under his labours . It was with a just indignation that he said in defence of his pension , ' I did not come into Parliament to con ...
... carried on without intermission to the end . Once , in the vigour of his manhood , his constitution sank under his labours . It was with a just indignation that he said in defence of his pension , ' I did not come into Parliament to con ...
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Página 169 - 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.
Página 168 - 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. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place...
Página 224 - 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.
Página 226 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us: a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who, therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Página 169 - 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. 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...
Página 302 - Colony, for contributing their proportion to the Common Defence (such proportion to be raised under the Authority of the General Court or General Assembly of such Province or Colony and disposable by Parliament) and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the Civil Government and the administration of Justice...
Página 175 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles, and such will be all masters of .slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
Página 79 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Página 197 - The march of the human mind is slow. Sir, it was not, until after two hundred years, discovered, that by an eternal law, Providence had decreed vexation to violence; and poverty to rapine. Your ancestors did however at length open their eyes to the ill husbandry of injustice. They found that the tyranny of a free people could of all tyrannies the least be endured; and that laws made against a whole nation were not the most effectual methods for securing its obedience.
Página 98 - 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.