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... reason ; I had a near prospect of the characters , views , and passions of the first men of the age . The cause of govern- ment was ably vindicated by lord North , a statesman of spotless integrity , a consummate master of debate , who ...
... reason ; I had a near prospect of the characters , views , and passions of the first men of the age . The cause of govern- ment was ably vindicated by lord North , a statesman of spotless integrity , a consummate master of debate , who ...
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... reason was obvious , as those who led it could effect with certainty and facility , under the appearance and ... reasons now offered by the learned gentleman prevail , they will , in a summary way , be enabled to do that which is denied ...
... reason was obvious , as those who led it could effect with certainty and facility , under the appearance and ... reasons now offered by the learned gentleman prevail , they will , in a summary way , be enabled to do that which is denied ...
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... reason on their side , and the minister came forward and assured us himself , that he had in- formation to lay before the House , and measures to propose . Mr. Edmund Burke . I should not have risen in this debate , if I had not heard ...
... reason on their side , and the minister came forward and assured us himself , that he had in- formation to lay before the House , and measures to propose . Mr. Edmund Burke . I should not have risen in this debate , if I had not heard ...
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... reason for not suffering them , it is that the judges of the inferior courts , as well as the justices , are under the governor's influence by the new Acts , though the said Acts don't take place , as to juries , till next month ; but ...
... reason for not suffering them , it is that the judges of the inferior courts , as well as the justices , are under the governor's influence by the new Acts , though the said Acts don't take place , as to juries , till next month ; but ...
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... reason- ing , is over ; nothing can be done but by forcible means . A vast concourse of people assembled this day from various parts , about eight miles from this ; they have frightened and pursued many ob- noxious people , as they term ...
... reason- ing , is over ; nothing can be done but by forcible means . A vast concourse of people assembled this day from various parts , about eight miles from this ; they have frightened and pursued many ob- noxious people , as they term ...
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Page 491 - 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 477 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration. And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England...
Page 519 - 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. This is the commodity of price, of which you have the monopoly.
Page 483 - I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the plantations. The colonists have now fallen into the way of printing them for their own use. I hear that they have sold nearly as many of Blackstone's Commentaries in America as in England.
Page 479 - My next objection is its uncertainty. Terror is not always the effect of force, and an armament is not a victory. If you do not succeed, you are without resource, for, conciliation failing, force remains; but, force failing, no further hope of reconciliation is left. Power and authority are sometimes bought by kindness, but they can never be begged as alms by an impoverished and defeated violence.
Page 477 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 511 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Page 491 - ... his whole authority is denied, — instantly to proclaim rebellion, to beat to arms, and to put the offending provinces under the ban. Will not this, Sir, very soon teach the provinces to make no distinctions on their part ? Will it not teach them that the government against which a claim of liberty is tantamount to high treason is a government to which submission is equivalent to slavery ? It may not always be quite convenient to impress dependent communities with such an idea.
Page 489 - The power inadequate to all other things is often more than sufficient for this. I do not look on the direct and immediate power of the colonies to resist our violence, as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider, that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us, it seems to my poor understanding a little preposterous, to make them unserviceable, in order to keep them obedient.
Page 519 - ... conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race. Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American empire. English privileges have made it all that it is; English privileges alone will make it all it can be.