BURKES SPEECH ON CONCILIATION WITH AMERICA1897 |
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... export and import only in English or American vessels ; that they must trade only with England and her colonies ; that they must not erect mills for rolling and slitting iron ; and that they must not export hats . To these vexations ...
... export and import only in English or American vessels ; that they must trade only with England and her colonies ; that they must not erect mills for rolling and slitting iron ; and that they must not export hats . To these vexations ...
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... export trade of England to its colonies , as it stood in the year 1704 , and as it stood in the year 1772 ; the other a state of the export trade of this country to COMMERCE OF THE COLONIES II.
... export trade of England to its colonies , as it stood in the year 1704 , and as it stood in the year 1772 ; the other a state of the export trade of this country to COMMERCE OF THE COLONIES II.
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... export side , at the beginning of this century , that is , in the year 1704 , stood 20 thus : Exports to North America and the West Indies , £ 483,265 To Africa . 86,665 £ 569,930 In the year 1772 , which I take as a middle year between ...
... export side , at the beginning of this century , that is , in the year 1704 , stood 20 thus : Exports to North America and the West Indies , £ 483,265 To Africa . 86,665 £ 569,930 In the year 1772 , which I take as a middle year between ...
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... export trade to the colonies alone in 1772 stood in the other point of view , that is , as compared to 5 the whole trade of England in 1704 : The whole export trade of England , including that to the colonies , in 1704 . Export to the ...
... export trade to the colonies alone in 1772 stood in the other point of view , that is , as compared to 5 the whole trade of England in 1704 : The whole export trade of England , including that to the colonies , in 1704 . Export to the ...
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... export to all the colonies together in the first period . I choose , Sir , to enter into these minute and particular ... exports from England . If I were to detail the imports , I could show how many en- joyments they procure which ...
... export to all the colonies together in the first period . I choose , Sir , to enter into these minute and particular ... exports from England . If I were to detail the imports , I could show how many en- joyments they procure which ...
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Seite 17 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Seite 37 - 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. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to do.
Seite 87 - AND after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart, 2 And was transfigured before them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light 3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Seite lv - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Seite 32 - But let us suppose all these moral difficulties got over. The ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry ; and as long as it continues in its present bed, so long all the causes which weaken authority by distance will continue. "Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, and make two lovers happy...
Seite 73 - We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire ; and have made the most extensive, and the only honourable conquests ; not by destroying, but by promoting, the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
Seite 16 - Straits — while 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. 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.
Seite 19 - ... and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth...
Seite 107 - That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council...
Seite 76 - An act for the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England.