The Speeches of the Earl of Chatham, the Hon. R.B. Sheridan, Lord Erskine, and the Hon. Edmund Burke: With Biographical Memoirs, Etc1853 - 170 páginas |
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... believe , the case at present , I hope there is a majority of us who know what is the voice of the people ; and if it be admitted by all that the nation is at present in the utmost distress and danger , if it be admitted by a majority ...
... believe , the case at present , I hope there is a majority of us who know what is the voice of the people ; and if it be admitted by all that the nation is at present in the utmost distress and danger , if it be admitted by a majority ...
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... believe we may ascribe to the same cause , relates to those who were engaged in heavy contracts for stock or subscription , many of whom groan under the load to this very day ; for after we had , by act of Parliament , quite altered the ...
... believe we may ascribe to the same cause , relates to those who were engaged in heavy contracts for stock or subscription , many of whom groan under the load to this very day ; for after we had , by act of Parliament , quite altered the ...
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... believe , hardly begun , to set up , in an express manner , with regard to searching and seizing our ships in the American seas ; and this we did not obtain , perhaps did not desire to obtain , by the Treaty of Seville . By that treaty ...
... believe , hardly begun , to set up , in an express manner , with regard to searching and seizing our ships in the American seas ; and this we did not obtain , perhaps did not desire to obtain , by the Treaty of Seville . By that treaty ...
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... believe him sincere in profess- ing that he is ready to agree to a parliamentary inquiry when he thinks the occasion requires it . But if he knew how often such professions are made by those who upon all occasions oppose inquiry , he ...
... believe him sincere in profess- ing that he is ready to agree to a parliamentary inquiry when he thinks the occasion requires it . But if he knew how often such professions are made by those who upon all occasions oppose inquiry , he ...
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... believe them to be ingenuous in what they say . I think , therefore , that the honourable gentle- man was in the right who endeavoured to justify the practice . It was more candid than to deny it but as his arguments have already been ...
... believe them to be ingenuous in what they say . I think , therefore , that the honourable gentle- man was in the right who endeavoured to justify the practice . It was more candid than to deny it but as his arguments have already been ...
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Página 478 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing and their privileges another— ^-that these two things may exist without any mutual relation — the cement is gone, the cohesion is loosened, and everything hastens to decay and dissolution.
Página 138 - When your lordships look at the papers transmitted us from America, when you consider their decency, firmness, and wisdom, you cannot but respect their cause, and wish to make it your own.
Página 151 - You may swell every expense and every effort still more extravagantly; pile and accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow ; traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles...
Página 480 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Página 433 - The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency. It was designed as a control for the people.
Página 521 - ... piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; 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.
Página 646 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe,— not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Página xiii - He made an administration, so checkered and speckled; he put together a piece of joinery, so crossly indented and whimsically dove-tailed; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified Mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers ; King's friends and republicans ; whigs and tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies; that it was indeed a very curious shew ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure...
Página 542 - House of Commons, as an immediate representative of the people, whether the old records had delivered this oracle or not. They took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that in all monarchies the people must in effect themselves, mediately or immediately, possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty could subsist.
Página 552 - Sir, let me add, too, that the opinion of my having some abstract right in my favor would not put me much at my ease in passing sentence, unless I could be sure that there were no rights which, in their exercise under certain circumstances, were not the most odious of all wrongs, and the most vexatious of all injustice. Sir, these considerations have great weight with me, when I find things so circumstanced that I see the same party, at once a civil litigant against me in point of right, and a culprit...