Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with Biographical Notices, and a PrefaceCharles Phillips |
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... seem to be so greatly captivated . But there is still behind a third consideration concerning this object , which serves to determine my opinion on the sort of policy which ought to be pursued in the management of America , even more ...
... seem to be so greatly captivated . But there is still behind a third consideration concerning this object , which serves to determine my opinion on the sort of policy which ought to be pursued in the management of America , even more ...
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... seem so terrible to the settled and sober part of mankind , as they had appeared before the trial . Pursuing the same plan of punishing by the denial of the exercise of government to still greater lengths , we wholly abrogated the ...
... seem so terrible to the settled and sober part of mankind , as they had appeared before the trial . Pursuing the same plan of punishing by the denial of the exercise of government to still greater lengths , we wholly abrogated the ...
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... seem to gain a paltry advantage over them in debate , without attacking some of those principles , or deriding some of those feelings , for which our ancestors have shed their blood . But , Sir , in wishing to put an end to pernicious ...
... seem to gain a paltry advantage over them in debate , without attacking some of those principles , or deriding some of those feelings , for which our ancestors have shed their blood . But , Sir , in wishing to put an end to pernicious ...
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... seems to my poor understanding a little preposterous , to make them unser- viceable , in order to keep them obedient . It is , in truth , nothing more than the old , and , as I thought , exploded problem of tyranny , which proposes to ...
... seems to my poor understanding a little preposterous , to make them unser- viceable , in order to keep them obedient . It is , in truth , nothing more than the old , and , as I thought , exploded problem of tyranny , which proposes to ...
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... but just as reasonable as many of the serious wishes of very grave and solemn poli- ticians . If then , Sir , it seems almost desperate to think of any D alterative course , for changing the moral causes ( and MR . BURKE . 33.
... but just as reasonable as many of the serious wishes of very grave and solemn poli- ticians . If then , Sir , it seems almost desperate to think of any D alterative course , for changing the moral causes ( and MR . BURKE . 33.
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Page 74 - But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master principles, which, in the opinion of such men as 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.
Page 17 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Page 17 - Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of Polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the Poles.
Page 72 - 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...
Page 73 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Page 73 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have ; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience.
Page 21 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered, in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound.
Page 39 - I am restoring tranquillity ; and the general character and situation of a people must determine what sort of government is fitted for them.
Page 17 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy; and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem aud admiration.
Page 73 - 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.