The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1877 |
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... pensioners and practised instruments of a court , gave a total repeal to the Stamp Act , and ( if it had been so permitted ) a last- ing peace to this whole empire . I state , Sir , these particulars , because this act of spirit and ...
... pensioners and practised instruments of a court , gave a total repeal to the Stamp Act , and ( if it had been so permitted ) a last- ing peace to this whole empire . I state , Sir , these particulars , because this act of spirit and ...
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... pensioners would starve , if they had no other fund to live on than taxes granted by English authority . Turn your eyes to those popular grants from whence all your great supplies are come , and learn to respect that only source of ...
... pensioners would starve , if they had no other fund to live on than taxes granted by English authority . Turn your eyes to those popular grants from whence all your great supplies are come , and learn to respect that only source of ...
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... pension . The thing I know by experience to be false . Never expecting to find perfection in men , and not looking for divine attributes in created beings , in my commerce with my contemporaries I have found much human virtue . I have ...
... pension . The thing I know by experience to be false . Never expecting to find perfection in men , and not looking for divine attributes in created beings , in my commerce with my contemporaries I have found much human virtue . I have ...
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... pensioners , and their dependants , may talk another language . But the voice of Nature is against them , and it will be heard . The people of England will not , they cannot , take it kindly , that representatives should refuse to their ...
... pensioners , and their dependants , may talk another language . But the voice of Nature is against them , and it will be heard . The people of England will not , they cannot , take it kindly , that representatives should refuse to their ...
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... pensions during the continuance of the American war . Nothing , Sir , could have met my ideas more than such a tax , if it was considered as a practical satire on that war , and as a penalty upon those who led us into it ; but in any ...
... pensions during the continuance of the American war . Nothing , Sir , could have met my ideas more than such a tax , if it was considered as a practical satire on that war , and as a penalty upon those who led us into it ; but in any ...
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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...