Speech ... on American taxation1775 |
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... . Eftimate your lofs in it . The object of the aft is gone al ready ; and all you fuffer is the purging the ftatute - book of the opprobrium of an empty , abfurd , and falfe recital It It has been faid again and again , that the ( ( & )
... . Eftimate your lofs in it . The object of the aft is gone al ready ; and all you fuffer is the purging the ftatute - book of the opprobrium of an empty , abfurd , and falfe recital It It has been faid again and again , that the ( ( & )
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... fuffer his mi- nifters with impunity to anfwer for his ideas of taxation ) we ought to make it our bufinefs to enable his Majefty to preferve in all its luftre . Let him have character , fince ours is no more ! Let fome part of ...
... fuffer his mi- nifters with impunity to anfwer for his ideas of taxation ) we ought to make it our bufinefs to enable his Majefty to preferve in all its luftre . Let him have character , fince ours is no more ! Let fome part of ...
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... fuffer itself , even to hear them re- monftrate upon the fubject . This was the state of the colonies before his Majesty thought fit to change his minifters . It stands upon no authority of mine . It is proved by uncontrovertible ...
... fuffer itself , even to hear them re- monftrate upon the fubject . This was the state of the colonies before his Majesty thought fit to change his minifters . It stands upon no authority of mine . It is proved by uncontrovertible ...
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... his eminent services , the vaft fpace he fills in the eye of mankind ; and , more than : all the reft , his fall from power , which , like death , canonizes D 2 and and fanctifies a great character , will not fuffer me ( 39 )
... his eminent services , the vaft fpace he fills in the eye of mankind ; and , more than : all the reft , his fall from power , which , like death , canonizes D 2 and and fanctifies a great character , will not fuffer me ( 39 )
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Edmund Burke. and fanctifies a great character , will not fuffer me to cenfure any part of his conduct . I am afraid to flatter him ; I am fure I am not difpofed to blame him . Let those who have betrayed him by their adulation , infult ...
Edmund Burke. and fanctifies a great character , will not fuffer me to cenfure any part of his conduct . I am afraid to flatter him ; I am fure I am not difpofed to blame him . Let those who have betrayed him by their adulation , infult ...
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Стр. 24 - With a masculine understanding," and a stout and resolute heart, he had an application undissipated and unwearied. He took public business not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleasure he was to enjoy...
Стр. 47 - Be content to bind America by laws of trade, you have always done it. Let this be your reason for binding their trade. Do not burthen them by taxes ; you were not used to do so from the beginning. Let this be your reason for not taxing. These are the arguments of states and kingdoms. Leave the rest to the schools ; for there only they may be discussed with safety.
Стр. 33 - I knew well enough (it could not be concealed from any body) the true state of things ; but, in my life, I never came with so much spirits into this house. It was a time for a man to act in. We had powerful enemies ; but we had faithful and determined friends ; and a glorious cause.
Стр. 24 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Стр. 34 - When, at length you had determined in their favour, and your doors, thrown open, showed them the figure of their deliverer in the well-earned triumph of his important victory, from the whole of that grave multitude there arose an involuntary burst of gratitude and transport.
Стр. 51 - I had rather bear the brunt of all his wit, and, indeed, blows much heavier, than stand answerable to God for embracing a system that tends to the destruction of some of the very best and fairest of His works. But I know the map of England as well as the noble lord, or as any other person ; and I know that the way I take is not the road to preferment.
Стр. 34 - I do not know how others feel ; but if I had stood in that situation, I never would have exchanged it for all that kings in their profusion could bestow.
Стр. 44 - ... in their ideas, what part they were going to take in any debate. It is astonishing how much this uncertainty, especially at critical times, called the attention of all parties on such men.
Стр. 42 - We are this day considering the effect of them. But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame — a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Стр. 44 - ... they rebellowed from the other; and that party, to whom they fell at length from their tremulous and dancing balance, always received them in a tempest of applause.