Works, Том 2Little, Brown, and Company, 1865 |
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... reason is fatigued ; experience has given judgment ; but obstinacy is not yet conquered . The honorable gentleman has made one endeavor more to diversify the form of this disgusting argu- ment . He has thrown out a speech composed al ...
... reason is fatigued ; experience has given judgment ; but obstinacy is not yet conquered . The honorable gentleman has made one endeavor more to diversify the form of this disgusting argu- ment . He has thrown out a speech composed al ...
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... , to consult our inven- tion , and to reject our experience . The mode of de- liberation he recommends is diametrically opposite to every rule of reason and every principle of good sense SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 7.
... , to consult our inven- tion , and to reject our experience . The mode of de- liberation he recommends is diametrically opposite to every rule of reason and every principle of good sense SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION . 7.
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Edmund Burke. every rule of reason and every principle of good sense established amongst mankind . For that sense and that reason I have always understood absolutely to prescribe , whenever we are involved in difficulties . from the ...
Edmund Burke. every rule of reason and every principle of good sense established amongst mankind . For that sense and that reason I have always understood absolutely to prescribe , whenever we are involved in difficulties . from the ...
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... reason for it . The ministers are with me . They at least are convinced that the repeal of the Stamp Act had not , and that no repeal can have , the consequences which the honorable gentle- man who defends their measures is so much ...
... reason for it . The ministers are with me . They at least are convinced that the repeal of the Stamp Act had not , and that no repeal can have , the consequences which the honorable gentle- man who defends their measures is so much ...
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... idea of your policy . Show the thing you con- tend for to be reason , show it to be common sense , show it to be the means of attaining some useful end , and then I am content to allow it 18 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
... idea of your policy . Show the thing you con- tend for to be reason , show it to be common sense , show it to be the means of attaining some useful end , and then I am content to allow it 18 SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION .
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Стр. 181 - I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. .Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Стр. 180 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Стр. 96 - 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...
Стр. 126 - The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.
Стр. 95 - 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. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Стр. 109 - I think it may be necessary to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances of the object which we have before us. Because after all our struggle, whether we will or not, we must govern America according to that nature and to those circumstances, and not according to our...
Стр. 133 - The power inadequate to all other things is often more than sufficient for this. I do not look on the direct and immediate power of the colonies to resist our violence as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us, it seems to my poor understanding a little preposterous to make them unserviceable, in order to keep them obedient.
Стр. 140 - 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.
Стр. 107 - ... of such province or colony, and disposable by Parliament,) and shall engage to make provision also for the support of the civil government and the administration of justice in such province or colony, it will be proper, if such proposal shall be approved by his Majesty...
Стр. 184 - That it may be proper to repeal an act, made in the seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for granting certain duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America...