The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: In the House of Commons, and in Westminster-Hall, المجلد 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816 |
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... of a more genuine cast , and less liable to suspicion , than those of any of our other great orators . So much is this the case , that in looking over those reports , a surprize is excited , not that a collection of these invalu- able A 3.
... of a more genuine cast , and less liable to suspicion , than those of any of our other great orators . So much is this the case , that in looking over those reports , a surprize is excited , not that a collection of these invalu- able A 3.
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... inquiry into the seizure and confiscation of private property in the Island of St. Eustatius — the speech in December 1781 , on the case of Mr. excited , not that a collection of these invalu- able A 4 INTRODUCTION .
... inquiry into the seizure and confiscation of private property in the Island of St. Eustatius — the speech in December 1781 , on the case of Mr. excited , not that a collection of these invalu- able A 4 INTRODUCTION .
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... able specimens of modern popular eloquence should be now made , but that twenty years should have been suffered to elapse before such a collection was undertaken . The speeches prepared for the public eye , by Mr. Burke himself , and ...
... able specimens of modern popular eloquence should be now made , but that twenty years should have been suffered to elapse before such a collection was undertaken . The speeches prepared for the public eye , by Mr. Burke himself , and ...
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... able reports that have , from time to time , been made by committees of both Houses . As this report is not included in Mr. Burke's Works , it has been thought ne- cessary to give it a place in this collection . This valuable document ...
... able reports that have , from time to time , been made by committees of both Houses . As this report is not included in Mr. Burke's Works , it has been thought ne- cessary to give it a place in this collection . This valuable document ...
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... able so far to reduce , as to give sufficient relief to the distresses of the poorer sort of my people . Your late residence in your several counties must have enabled you to judge , whether any farther provisions can be made conducive ...
... able so far to reduce , as to give sufficient relief to the distresses of the poorer sort of my people . Your late residence in your several counties must have enabled you to judge , whether any farther provisions can be made conducive ...
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الصفحة 186 - 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.
الصفحة 277 - Do not entertain so weak an imagination as that your registers and your bonds, your affidavits and your sufferances, your cockets and your clearances, are what form the great securities of your commerce. Do not dream that your letters of office, and your instructions, and your suspending clauses, are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole.
الصفحة 247 - 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...
الصفحة 247 - The temper and character which prevail in our colonies are, I am afraid, unalterable by any human art. We cannot, I fear, falsify the pedigree of this fierce people, and persuade them that they are not sprung from a nation in whose veins the blood of freedom circulates.
الصفحة 247 - English principles. Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their, happiness.
الصفحة 277 - It is the love of the people ; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
الصفحة 247 - ... Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object ; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you know, Sir, that the great contests for freedom in this country were from the earliest times chiefly upon the question of taxing.
الصفحة 247 - Mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain, one vast, rich, level meadow ; a square of five hundred miles. Over this they would wander without a possibility of restraint; they would change their manners with...
الصفحة 247 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege.
الصفحة 200 - ... patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.