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Page xxiii
... mind , too open and too full ; and we wonder with a sort of strange veneration at this extraor- dinary outflow , impetuous as a torrent , broad as a sea , in which the inexhaustible variety of colors and forms undulates beneath the ...
... mind , too open and too full ; and we wonder with a sort of strange veneration at this extraor- dinary outflow , impetuous as a torrent , broad as a sea , in which the inexhaustible variety of colors and forms undulates beneath the ...
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... mind , and in truth he can hardly be said to have written a single page without communicating to the most enlightened reader something new , either in thought or illus- tration . Wisdom and eloquence , which others attain with labor ...
... mind , and in truth he can hardly be said to have written a single page without communicating to the most enlightened reader something new , either in thought or illus- tration . Wisdom and eloquence , which others attain with labor ...
Page xlii
... mind of a statesman ; and he strongly dreaded revolutionary change . Inconsiderate zeal to force the colonies into submission to imperial claims , against which opposition was fast rising to revolutionary heat , he met by steady labor ...
... mind of a statesman ; and he strongly dreaded revolutionary change . Inconsiderate zeal to force the colonies into submission to imperial claims , against which opposition was fast rising to revolutionary heat , he met by steady labor ...
Page xliv
... minds were set . But such a task , the most invidious which can fall within the sphere of public duty , requires something more for its successful perform- ance than patriotic impulses and good intentions . Unfortunately those honorable ...
... minds were set . But such a task , the most invidious which can fall within the sphere of public duty , requires something more for its successful perform- ance than patriotic impulses and good intentions . Unfortunately those honorable ...
Page xlv
... few quarter days , was not a career to the mind of a great landowner who seldom got as much sport and fresh air as he could wish , and who , since he had outgrown the temptations of the card - table , INTRODUCTION . xlv.
... few quarter days , was not a career to the mind of a great landowner who seldom got as much sport and fresh air as he could wish , and who , since he had outgrown the temptations of the card - table , INTRODUCTION . xlv.
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Page 124 - ... as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances, cannot properly be represented in the British Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several Provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their Sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Page 36 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Page 15 - 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.
Page lxxix - I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party or any man desired or expected.
Page 71 - 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. But let it...
Page 32 - 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 21 - There is, however, a circumstance attending these colonies, which, in my opinion, fully counterbalances this difference, and makes the spirit of liberty still more high and haughty than in those to the northward. It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves. 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.
Page 72 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.
Page xxx - British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud Keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers...
Page 72 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you.