The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2John West and O.C. Greenleaf, 1807 |
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Page 73
... payment , and its proportion to others . If you should attempt it , the committee of provincial ways and means , or ... payments to be settled ? To say nothing of the im- possibility that colony agents should have general powers of ...
... payment , and its proportion to others . If you should attempt it , the committee of provincial ways and means , or ... payments to be settled ? To say nothing of the im- possibility that colony agents should have general powers of ...
Page 74
... payment . Suppose one , two , five , ten years arrears . You cannot issue a treasury extent against the failing colony . You must make new Boston port bills , new restraining laws , new acts for dragging men to England for trial . You ...
... payment . Suppose one , two , five , ten years arrears . You cannot issue a treasury extent against the failing colony . You must make new Boston port bills , new restraining laws , new acts for dragging men to England for trial . You ...
Page 77
... pay the duties on these ob- jects which you tax at home , she has performed her part to the British revenue . But with regard to her own internal establishments ; she may , I doubt not she will , contribute in moderation . I say in ...
... pay the duties on these ob- jects which you tax at home , she has performed her part to the British revenue . But with regard to her own internal establishments ; she may , I doubt not she will , contribute in moderation . I say in ...
Page 126
... pay some of their court to power through the people , and substitute the voice of tran- sient opinion in the place of true glory , will give into the gen- eral mode ; and those superiour understandings which ought to correct vulgar ...
... pay some of their court to power through the people , and substitute the voice of tran- sient opinion in the place of true glory , will give into the gen- eral mode ; and those superiour understandings which ought to correct vulgar ...
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... pay the same taxes , and therefore ought not in equity to enjoy the same benefits with this . I had hopes , that the unhappy phantom of a compulsory equal taxation had haunted us long enough . I do assure you , that until it is entirely ...
... pay the same taxes , and therefore ought not in equity to enjoy the same benefits with this . I had hopes , that the unhappy phantom of a compulsory equal taxation had haunted us long enough . I do assure you , that until it is entirely ...
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Page 14 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole — where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Page 31 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent, to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 79 - Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Page 78 - My hold of the Colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties, which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.
Page 36 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such, in our days, were the Poles, and such will be all masters of .slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
Page 31 - Straits — while 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.* Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry.
Page 432 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, — fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and, amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, — were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile...
Page 45 - The ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry, and as long as it continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. " Ye Gods annihilate but space and time, and make two lovers happy...
Page 15 - If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form a hasty opinion, evidently opposite to the real good of the rest of the community, the member for that place ought to be as far, as any other, from any endeavour to give it effect.
Page 14 - If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion ? in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ? and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments...