The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2John West and O.C. Greenleaf, 1807 |
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... whole and as an ardent is always a jealous affection , your colonies become suspicious , restive , and untractable , whenev- er they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force , or shuffle from them by chicane , what they think ...
... whole and as an ardent is always a jealous affection , your colonies become suspicious , restive , and untractable , whenev- er they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force , or shuffle from them by chicane , what they think ...
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... whole system . You have , indeed , winged ministers of vengeance , who carry your bolts in their pounces to the remotest verge of the sea . But there a power steps in , that limits the arrogance of rag- ing passions and furious elements ...
... whole system . You have , indeed , winged ministers of vengeance , who carry your bolts in their pounces to the remotest verge of the sea . But there a power steps in , that limits the arrogance of rag- ing passions and furious elements ...
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... whole have sunk . I do not intend to be over- whelmed in that bog , though in such respectable company . The question with me is , not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is not your in- terest to ...
... whole have sunk . I do not intend to be over- whelmed in that bog , though in such respectable company . The question with me is , not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is not your in- terest to ...
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... whole plan to you together , with such observations on the motions as may tend to illustrate them where they may want explanation . The first is a resolution " That the colonies and plantations of Great Britain in North America ...
... whole plan to you together , with such observations on the motions as may tend to illustrate them where they may want explanation . The first is a resolution " That the colonies and plantations of Great Britain in North America ...
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... whole , by the freemen , freeholders , or other free inhabitants there- of , commonly called the General Assembly , or General Court , with powers legally to raise , levy , and assess , accord- ing to the several usage of such colonies ...
... whole , by the freemen , freeholders , or other free inhabitants there- of , commonly called the General Assembly , or General Court , with powers legally to raise , levy , and assess , accord- ing to the several usage of such colonies ...
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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...