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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الصفحة xviii
... war with Ame- rica , i . 393 . Ministers , motion of censure on , ii . 336 . Regency bill , iii . 391 . Religious persecution , xviii INDEX OF REFERENCE . ABATEMENT of an peachment by a dissolu- lution of parliament, iii 505.
... war with Ame- rica , i . 393 . Ministers , motion of censure on , ii . 336 . Regency bill , iii . 391 . Religious persecution , xviii INDEX OF REFERENCE . ABATEMENT of an peachment by a dissolu- lution of parliament, iii 505.
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... ministerial arrangement ; the chancellorship of the exchequer was filled ad interim by Lord Mansfield . It was offered to Lord North , who at first declined , but was afterwards prevailed on to accept the office . but the first speech ...
... ministerial arrangement ; the chancellorship of the exchequer was filled ad interim by Lord Mansfield . It was offered to Lord North , who at first declined , but was afterwards prevailed on to accept the office . but the first speech ...
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... minister . The chief and only pretended merit of the speech is , that it contains no extraordinary matter , that it can do no harm , and consequently that an address of applause upon such speech is but a mere compliment to the throne ...
... minister . The chief and only pretended merit of the speech is , that it contains no extraordinary matter , that it can do no harm , and consequently that an address of applause upon such speech is but a mere compliment to the throne ...
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... minister , at the advises the throne to recommend a mat- t deliberation of parliament , confesses in at this very matter is beyond the reach of what inference must we necessarily draw from xt , and from such an illustration ? I will not ...
... minister , at the advises the throne to recommend a mat- t deliberation of parliament , confesses in at this very matter is beyond the reach of what inference must we necessarily draw from xt , and from such an illustration ? I will not ...
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... ministers of state . I have this day watched his words with an honest solicitude to catch some that had a meaning , but the ideas they convey , are like those of a dream in the night , all incoherence and confusion . --- He has told us ...
... ministers of state . I have this day watched his words with an honest solicitude to catch some that had a meaning , but the ideas they convey , are like those of a dream in the night , all incoherence and confusion . --- He has told us ...
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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.