 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. It is the weight of...  The Works of ... Edmund Burke - Página 363de Edmund Burke - 1803Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Sherwin Cody - 1904 - 566 páginas
...it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans...bear. It is then, sir, upon the principle of this measure, and nothing else, that we are at issue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your act... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - 510 páginas
...it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans...bear. It is then, sir, upon the principle of this measure, and nothing else, that we are at issue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your Act... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1905 - 136 páginas
...it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans...bear. It is then, Sir, upon the principle of this measure, and nothing else, that we are at issue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your act... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1905 - 156 páginas
...it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear, i It is then, Sir, upon the principle of this measure, and nothing else, that we are at issue. It is... | |
 | Charles Wesley Emerson - 1905 - 138 páginas
...it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear. 12. It is, then, sir, upon the principle of this measure, and nothing else, that we are at issue. It... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1911 - 318 páginas
...it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty that the Americans...bear. It is then, Sir, upon the principle of this measure, and nothing else, that we are at issue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your Act... | |
 | Charles Altschul - 1917 - 184 páginas
...said the noble-minded Burke, defending the rights of Americans on the floor of the House of Commons, "and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear." P. 121 : Americans hated the British soldiers, now stationed both at New York and Boston, for their... | |
 | Albert Mason Harris - 1924 - 458 páginas
...it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans...bear. It is, then, sir, upon the principle of this measure, and nothing else, that we are at issue. It is a principle of political expediency. Your act... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - 1927 - 790 páginas
...it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear. You are, therefore, at this moment, in the awkward situation of fighting for a phantom, a quiddity,... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 2003 - 438 páginas
...it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble, of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear."29 Burke, intending to explain why American whigs looked at English history to find arguments... | |
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