The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds, Bind 1Holdsworth and Ball, 1834 - 2 sider |
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Side xiii
... Rockingham party resolved was that which respected America , and is well known to every reader of this portion of our history . It repealed the stamp act on the ground of expediency , BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTION . XIII.
... Rockingham party resolved was that which respected America , and is well known to every reader of this portion of our history . It repealed the stamp act on the ground of expediency , BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTION . XIII.
Side xiv
... repealed the stamp act on the ground of expediency , but asserted the legislative power of Great Britain to enforce it , if she thought proper . This was a middle course between the two extreme parties , one of whom denied the right of ...
... repealed the stamp act on the ground of expediency , but asserted the legislative power of Great Britain to enforce it , if she thought proper . This was a middle course between the two extreme parties , one of whom denied the right of ...
Side xvi
... repeal of the Test Act , a motion for which passed by a great majority in the lower house but was rejected in the ... repealing the abhorred tea - duty . It is equal in beauty to any speech Mr. Burke ever composed ; and in nerve and ...
... repeal of the Test Act , a motion for which passed by a great majority in the lower house but was rejected in the ... repealing the abhorred tea - duty . It is equal in beauty to any speech Mr. Burke ever composed ; and in nerve and ...
Side xxii
... repeal of the " Marriage Act . " In November 1781 , he renewed his attacks on the ministry for their obstinate perseverance in the war . One of his most brilliant efforts was in behalf of Mr. Lawrence , the American envoy to Holland ...
... repeal of the " Marriage Act . " In November 1781 , he renewed his attacks on the ministry for their obstinate perseverance in the war . One of his most brilliant efforts was in behalf of Mr. Lawrence , the American envoy to Holland ...
Side xxx
... repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts , was the next occasion of difference with his old friends . It is well known that he had once been one of the most strenuous advocates of that repeal , and even at this time declared , that had ...
... repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts , was the next occasion of difference with his old friends . It is well known that he had once been one of the most strenuous advocates of that repeal , and even at this time declared , that had ...
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Side 186 - 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.
Side liv - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others ; and, we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Side lxvi - 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.
Side 180 - Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Side 204 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire, and have made the most extensive and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Side 332 - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Side 188 - Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire; and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies, the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities. Nature has said it. The Turk cannot govern Egypt, and Arabia, and...
Side liii - Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents.
Side liii - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Side 332 - When at length Hyder Ali found, that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty, and no signature, could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind.