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" When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance of British liberty, are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for... "
The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and ... - Page 327
by Charles Knight - 1874
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American Taxation: A Speech, Delivered April 19, 1774

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1885 - 66 pages
...to turn to them the shameful parts of our Constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength? our opprobrium for their glory? and the...able to work off, to serve them for their freedom? 76. If this be the case, ask yourselves this question, Will they becontent in such a state of slavery...
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The American Library of Art, Literature and Song, Volume 4

Literature - 1886 - 562 pages
...to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? Are we to give them our weakness for their strength, our opprobrium for their glory, and the...able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? EDMUND BURKE. THE SUBLIME. THE feeling of the sublime is acknowledged on all hands to be intimately...
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Treasury of Irish Eloquence: Being a Compendium of Irish Oratory and Literature

English literature - 1887 - 958 pages
...them our weakness for their strength, our opprobrium for their glory ? and the slough of slavery, whhh we are not able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? If this be the case, ask yourselves this question: Will they be content in such a state of slavery...
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Speeches on the American War: And Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol

Edmund Burke - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1891 - 264 pages
...turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution? are we to 10 give them our weakness for their strength? our opprobrium for their glory ? and the...able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? If this be the case, ask yourselves this question, Will they be content in such a state of slavery?...
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Horae Sabbaticae: Third series

James Fitzjames Stephen - Literature - 1892 - 392 pages
...to turn to them the shameful parts of our Constitution 1 Are we to give them our weakness for their strength, our opprobrium for their glory, and the...able to work off, to serve them for their freedom t' The colonies are to have their own place, and the British Parliament to have its place. It is the...
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Two Speeches on Conciliation with America: And Two Letters on Irish Questions

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1892 - 294 pages
...to turn to them the shameful parts of our Constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength ? our opprobrium for their glory ? and the...able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? If this be the case, ask yourselves this question, Will they be content in such a state of slavery...
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Select Works, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - Political science - 1892 - 400 pages
...*f**^A« c^v- sSer?^'^ f:"*0 ,0 ^e^ %use *e * #<ft<**^*M-** >* ^^ »* 1jS*>^^w^ 5»( •*" ^ ^* , 156 and the slough of slavery, which we are not able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? rf this be the case, ask yourselves this question, Will they , content in such a state of slavery...
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The Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three ..., Volume 4

Henry Coppée - Literature - 1894 - 544 pages
...to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? Are we to give them our weakness for their strength, our opprobrium for their glory, and the...able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? EDMUND BURKE. THE SUBLIME. THE feeling of the sublime is acknowledged on all hands to be intimately...
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History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the ..., Volume 3

George Bancroft - United States - 1896 - 522 pages
...When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, are we to give them our weakness for their strength, our opprobrium for their glory ? and the...work off, to serve them for their freedom ? " The words fell from him as burning oracles ; while he spoke for the rights of America, he seemed to prepare...
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Composition-rhetoric: Designed for Use in Secondary Schools

Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1897 - 394 pages
...to turn to them the shameful parts of our Constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength? our opprobrium for their glory? and the slough of slavery, which we are not able to work ofi, to serve them for their freedom? EXERCISE 73. In the following selection combine in a single declarative...
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