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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... political fever , should madly administer such in- flammatives , as threaten the actual existence of our con- stitution ? A The object of the motion before you , Sir , is to cast a stigma upon the chief city of the British empire : a ...
... political fever , should madly administer such in- flammatives , as threaten the actual existence of our con- stitution ? A The object of the motion before you , Sir , is to cast a stigma upon the chief city of the British empire : a ...
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... political strength , our declared , nay , what is more , our confirmed enemies ; and out of resentment to them , to do a manifest outrage upon ourselves . This , Sir , would at any time be the consequence of offending the city of London ...
... political strength , our declared , nay , what is more , our confirmed enemies ; and out of resentment to them , to do a manifest outrage upon ourselves . This , Sir , would at any time be the consequence of offending the city of London ...
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... political vineyard to triumph over the Americans . Because the colonists have begun to import , they cry out Victory ! But the colonists are still true to their first principle , and still act steadily upon it . They determined to ...
... political vineyard to triumph over the Americans . Because the colonists have begun to import , they cry out Victory ! But the colonists are still true to their first principle , and still act steadily upon it . They determined to ...
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... politicians , may have their doubts on this head . They may suspect us to be a House of Commons only de facto , and not de jure . When such an opinion prevails , is it safe for us , at such a critical period , to take upon our- selves ...
... politicians , may have their doubts on this head . They may suspect us to be a House of Commons only de facto , and not de jure . When such an opinion prevails , is it safe for us , at such a critical period , to take upon our- selves ...
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... political sky . Our wise rulers , easily believing what they wished , and foreseeing their own fall in a fresh war , would give no ear to any arguments on that head . Nay , when they received certain intelligence of the violence ...
... political sky . Our wise rulers , easily believing what they wished , and foreseeing their own fall in a fresh war , would give no ear to any arguments on that head . Nay , when they received certain intelligence of the violence ...
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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 277 - 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.