Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1808 - Great Britain |
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... colonies had attained to a height , which me- naced the mosts serious conséquences . The ob- noxious , laws passed by the preceding ministry , had excited throughout the American dependencies a spi- rit of discontent , which seemed ...
... colonies had attained to a height , which me- naced the mosts serious conséquences . The ob- noxious , laws passed by the preceding ministry , had excited throughout the American dependencies a spi- rit of discontent , which seemed ...
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... colonies against the tax , and their increasing disposi- tion to violence , the government of Great Britain re- solved to enforce the measure , and vessels loaded with the offensive commodity were accordingly per- mitted to be sent to ...
... colonies against the tax , and their increasing disposi- tion to violence , the government of Great Britain re- solved to enforce the measure , and vessels loaded with the offensive commodity were accordingly per- mitted to be sent to ...
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... * Lord Hillsborough's circular letter to the governours of the colonies concerning the repeal of some of the duties laid in the act of 1767 . American commerce , would have been comparatively as nothing . 36 MR . BURKE'S SPEECH.
... * Lord Hillsborough's circular letter to the governours of the colonies concerning the repeal of some of the duties laid in the act of 1767 . American commerce , would have been comparatively as nothing . 36 MR . BURKE'S SPEECH.
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... colonies , to every nation but yourselves . Never did a people suffer so much for the empty words of a pre- amble . It must be given up . For on what principle does it stand ? This famous revenue stands , at this hour , on all the ...
... colonies , to every nation but yourselves . Never did a people suffer so much for the empty words of a pre- amble . It must be given up . For on what principle does it stand ? This famous revenue stands , at this hour , on all the ...
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... colonies ; where it was certain the collection would devour it to the bone ; if any revenue were ever suffered to be collected at all . One spirit pervades and animates the whole mass . Could any thing be a subject of more just alarm to ...
... colonies ; where it was certain the collection would devour it to the bone ; if any revenue were ever suffered to be collected at all . One spirit pervades and animates the whole mass . Could any thing be a subject of more just alarm to ...
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Page 2 - In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, « An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
Page 112 - 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 hard 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.
Page 164 - 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 166 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 247 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 112 - 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 118 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Page 128 - ... a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Page 120 - The Turk cannot govern Egypt and Arabia and Kurdistan as he governs Thrace ; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all ; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Page 155 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.