The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1877 |
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... nature . You have in this kingdom an advantage in lead that amounts to a monopoly . When you find yourself in this situation of advantage , you sometimes venture to tax even your own export . You did so soon after the last war , when ...
... nature . You have in this kingdom an advantage in lead that amounts to a monopoly . When you find yourself in this situation of advantage , you sometimes venture to tax even your own export . You did so soon after the last war , when ...
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... nature of the law , or abridges the power of the lawgiver . It certainly does not . How ever , titles and formal preambles are not always idle words ; and the lawyers frequently argue from them . I state these facts to show , not what ...
... nature of the law , or abridges the power of the lawgiver . It certainly does not . How ever , titles and formal preambles are not always idle words ; and the lawyers frequently argue from them . I state these facts to show , not what ...
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... nature with all its infirmities . The Act of Navigation at- tended the colonies from their infancy , grew with their growth , and strengthened with their strength They were confirmed in obedience to it even more by usage than by law ...
... nature with all its infirmities . The Act of Navigation at- tended the colonies from their infancy , grew with their growth , and strengthened with their strength They were confirmed in obedience to it even more by usage than by law ...
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... nature , it was an happy and a lib- eral condition . I know , Sir , that great and not unsuccessful pains have been taken to inflame our minds by an outcry , in this House , and out of it , that in America the Act of Navigation neither ...
... nature , it was an happy and a lib- eral condition . I know , Sir , that great and not unsuccessful pains have been taken to inflame our minds by an outcry , in this House , and out of it , that in America the Act of Navigation neither ...
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... nature of all greatness not to be exact ; and great trade will always be attended with considerable abuses . The contraband will always keep pace in some measure with the fair trade . It should stand as a fundamental maxim , that no ...
... nature of all greatness not to be exact ; and great trade will always be attended with considerable abuses . The contraband will always keep pace in some measure with the fair trade . It should stand as a fundamental maxim , that no ...
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Página 182 - 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.
Página 150 - From that moment, as by a charm, the tumults subsided ; obedience was restored ; peace, order, and civilization followed in the train of liberty. When the day-star of the English Constitution had arisen in their hearts, all was harmony within and without. Simul alba nautis Stella refulsit, Defluit saxis agitatus humor : Concidunt venti, fugiuntque nubes ; Et minax (quod sic voluere) ponto Unda recumbit.
Página 38 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Página 124 - 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 123 - 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.
Página 124 - 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.
Página 163 - An Act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs upon the exportation from this kingdom of coffee and...
Página 110 - Such is the strength with which population shoots in that part of the world that, state the numbers as high as we will, whilst the dispute continues, the exaggeration ends. Whilst we are "discussing any given magnitude, they are grown to it.
Página 64 - For even then, sir, even before this splendid orb was entirely set, and while the western horizon was in a blaze with his descending glory, on the opposite quarter of the heavens arose another luminary, and, for his hour, became lord of the ascendant.
Página 164 - America, and for more effectually preventing the clandestine running of goods in the said colonies and plantations ; and that it may be proper to repeal an act, made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled, 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...