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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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Footsteps of Freedom: Essays

James Henry Cousins - English essays - 1919 - 198 pages
...countenance of British liberty ; are we to give them our weaknesses for strength ? our opprobrium for glory ? and the slough of slavery, which we are not able to work off, to serve them for freedom?" Small wonder, then, that Burke's blood boiled — as a contemporary declared— over the...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...are we to give them our weakness for their strength? our opprobrium for their glory ? and the slongh p i 9 p p kc. ? If this be the case, ask yourselves this question, Will they be content in such a state of slavery?...
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Burke, Select Works, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 2005 - 848 pages
...we to give them our weakness for their strength ? our opprobrium for their glory? AMERICAN TAXATION. and the slough of slavery, which 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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The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 602 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 ? * Lord Carmarthen. If this be the case, ask yourselves this question : Will they be content in such...
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History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent ...

George Bancroft - United States - 1854 - 560 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. It appeared as if he was lifted upward to gaze into futurity,...
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Edmund Burke Speeches on American Taxation and Conciliation with America

254 pages
...parts of our Constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength? our opprobrium for 5 their glory ? and the slough of slavery, which we...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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The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: On Conciliation with America ...

Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 602 pages
...are we to give them our weakness for their strength, our opprobrium for their glory, and the slongh of slavery, which we are not able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? * Lord Carmarthen. If this be the case, ask yourselves this question : Will they be content in such...
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