The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes. Vol. I.[-III.].J. Dodsley, Pall Mall., 1792 |
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... called upon by the defire of several respectable fellow - fubjects , as I have done at other times , I give up my fears to their wishes . Whatever my other deficiencies may be , I do not know what it is to be wanting to my friends . I ...
... called upon by the defire of several respectable fellow - fubjects , as I have done at other times , I give up my fears to their wishes . Whatever my other deficiencies may be , I do not know what it is to be wanting to my friends . I ...
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... called upon , as it were by a fuperior warning * The Act to restrain the trade and commerce of the provinces of Massachuset's- Bay and New Hampshire , and colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island , and Provi- dence Plantation , in North ...
... called upon , as it were by a fuperior warning * The Act to restrain the trade and commerce of the provinces of Massachuset's- Bay and New Hampshire , and colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island , and Provi- dence Plantation , in North ...
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... called for 11,459 / . in value of your commodities , native and fo- reign . This was the whole . What did it demand in 1772 ? Why nearly fifty times as much ; for in that year the export ' to Penfylvania was 507,909 / . nearly equal to ...
... called for 11,459 / . in value of your commodities , native and fo- reign . This was the whole . What did it demand in 1772 ? Why nearly fifty times as much ; for in that year the export ' to Penfylvania was 507,909 / . nearly equal to ...
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... called an house of commons . They went much further ; they attempted to prove , and they fucceeded , that in theory it ought to be fo , from the parti- cular nature of a house of commons , as an immediate repre- sentative of the people ...
... called an house of commons . They went much further ; they attempted to prove , and they fucceeded , that in theory it ought to be fo , from the parti- cular nature of a house of commons , as an immediate repre- sentative of the people ...
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... called upon to fix fome rule and line for our future conduct , which may give a little stability to our politics , and prevent the return of fuch unhappy deliberations as the prefent . Every fuch return will bring the matter before us ...
... called upon to fix fome rule and line for our future conduct , which may give a little stability to our politics , and prevent the return of fuch unhappy deliberations as the prefent . Every fuch return will bring the matter before us ...
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Page 95 - All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians who have no place among us, a sort of people who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
Page 94 - 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 90 - Compare the two. This I offer to give you is plain and simple. The other full of perplexed and intricate mazes. This is mild; that harsh. This is found by experience effectual for its purposes; the other is a new project. This is universal; the other calculated for certain colonies only. This is immediate in its conciliatory operation; the other remote, contingent, full of hazard. Mine is what becomes the dignity of a ruling people; gratuitous, unconditional, and not held out as matter of bargain...
Page 44 - 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 reconcilable...
Page 44 - ... of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders. Spain, in her provinces, is, perhaps, not so well obeyed as you are in yours. She complies too, she submits, she watches times. This is the immutable condition, the eternal law, of extensive and detached empire.
Page 25 - Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion; and ever will be so, as long as the world //'endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view, as fraud is surely detected at last, is, let me say, of no mean force in the government of mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart is an healing and cementing principle.
Page 41 - The colonists left England when this spirit was high, and in the emigrants was the highest of all ; and even that stream of foreigners which has been constantly flowing into these colonies has, for the greatest part, been composed of dissenters from the establishments of their several countries, and have brought with them a temper and character far from alien to that of the people with whom they mixed.
Page 331 - India charter is a charter to establish monopoly, and to create power. Political power and commercial monopoly are not the rights of men ; and the rights to them derived from charters, it is fallacious and sophistical to call
Page 66 - With a preamble stating the entire and perfect rights of the crown of England, it gave to the Welsh all the rights and privileges of English subjects. A political order was established; the military power gave way to the civil; the marches were turned into counties. But that a nation should have a right to English liberties, and yet no share at all in the fundamental security of these liberties, the grant of their own property...
Page 420 - These thoughts will support a mind, which only exists for honour, under the burthen of temporary reproach. He is doing indeed a great good ; such as rarely falls to the lot, and almost as rarely coincides with the desires, of any man. Let him use his time. Let him give the whole length of the reins to his benevolence. He is now on a great eminence, where the eyes of mankind are turned to him. He may live long, he may do much. But here is the summit. He never can exceed what he does this day.