The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: In the House of Commons, and in Westminster-Hall, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 |
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... grievances . At a time , Sir , when our taxes are higher than they have been at any former period , and trade every where declin- ing - when our brethren in America are driven from the bosom of their mother country to the arms of ...
... grievances . At a time , Sir , when our taxes are higher than they have been at any former period , and trade every where declin- ing - when our brethren in America are driven from the bosom of their mother country to the arms of ...
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... grievances , Sir , are indisputable , they are known to all Europe ; and the eyes of all Europe are upon us this day , expecting that they would not have been passed over in silence they have engaged their conversation , as well as our ...
... grievances , Sir , are indisputable , they are known to all Europe ; and the eyes of all Europe are upon us this day , expecting that they would not have been passed over in silence they have engaged their conversation , as well as our ...
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... grievance is the greater . It would be easy America would have been ins which it was imposed , if every and the ... grievances , hem as groundless . What ! hem , but confine themselves ce , is that an evidence that principal ...
... grievance is the greater . It would be easy America would have been ins which it was imposed , if every and the ... grievances , hem as groundless . What ! hem , but confine themselves ce , is that an evidence that principal ...
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... grievances , do not make them : it has , indeed , been insinuated that our grievances are imaginary , because they are such as the peasants , or artificers of Yorkshire , would not immediately feel , nor perhaps discover till they felt ...
... grievances , do not make them : it has , indeed , been insinuated that our grievances are imaginary , because they are such as the peasants , or artificers of Yorkshire , would not immediately feel , nor perhaps discover till they felt ...
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... grievances , the other counties rejected them as groundless . What ! because they do not mention them , but confine themselves to the dragon , the huge grievance , is that an evidence that ey do not exist ? I was one of those ADDRESS ON ...
... grievances , the other counties rejected them as groundless . What ! because they do not mention them , but confine themselves to the dragon , the huge grievance , is that an evidence that ey do not exist ? I was one of those ADDRESS ON ...
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Page 186 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 276 - Do not entertain so weak an imagination as that your registers and your bonds, your affidavits and your sufferances, your cockets and your clearances, are what form the great securities of your commerce. Do not dream that your letters of office, and your instructions, and your suspending clauses, are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole.
Page 247 - Then, sir, from these six capital sources of descent, of form of government, of religion in the northern provinces, of manners in the southern, of education, of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up. It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies, and increased with the increase of their wealth ; a spirit that, unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England, which, however lawful, is not...
Page 247 - The temper and character which prevail in our colonies are, I am afraid, unalterable by any human art. We cannot, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates.
Page 247 - English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their, happiness.
Page 277 - It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
Page 247 - ... Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you know, Sir, that the great contests for freedom in this country were from the earliest times chiefly upon the question of taxing.
Page 247 - Mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain, one vast, rich, level meadow ; a square of five hundred miles. Over this they would wander without a possibility of restraint; they would change their manners with...
Page 247 - 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 200 - ... patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.