Selected English Speeches from Burke to Gladstone |
Other editions - View all
Selected English Speeches from Burke to Gladstone (Classic Reprint) Edgar R. Jones No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
admit Anne Brontë argument army authority Bill borough British cause character Christian colonies consider constitution Corn-law danger duty E. V. LUCAS election electors empire England English Europe favour feel France Free Trade give Government Hastings hear heard high bailiff honourable friend hope House of Braganza House of Commons interests Ireland Irish Jews justice King labour land legislation liberty Lordships means measure ment Middleton millions Minister nation never noble lord object obstruction opinion Parlia Parliament Parliamentary party peace persecution political poll population Portugal possess present principles proceedings Protestant question Radical reason reformed religion returning officers right honourable Baronet right honourable gentleman Roman Catholics scrutiny Sir Robert Peel Sovereign Spain spirit stand suffering suppose tell THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON things tion Treaty truth University of Oxford vote Westminster Whigs whole wish writ
Popular passages
Page 10 - Brusa and Smyrna. Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster. The Sultan gets such obedience as he can. He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all ; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his centre is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.
Page 1 - America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who understand the military art will of course have some predilection for it. Those who wield the thunder...
Page 8 - Commentaries in America as in England. General Gage marks out this disposition very particularly in a letter on your table. He states that all the people in his government are lawyers, or smatterers in law ; and that in Boston they have been enabled, by successful chicane, wholly to evade many parts of one of your capital penal constitutions.
Page 208 - The consciousness of such strength is, undoubtedly, a source of confidence and security; but in the situation in which this country stands, our business is not to seek opportunities of displaying it, but to content ourselves with letting the professors of violent and exaggerated doctrines on both sides feel, that it is not their interest to convert an umpire into an adversary.
Page 9 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual...
Page 42 - I do; I know their virtues and their valor; I know they can achieve anything but impossibilities; and I know that the conquest of British America is an impossibility. You cannot, my Lords, you cannot conquer America. What is your present situation there ? We do not know the worst; but we know that in three campaigns we have done nothing, and suffered much.
Page 51 - to use all the means which God and nature have put into our hands." I am astonished, I am shocked, to hear such principles confessed ; to hear them avowed in this House or in this country.
Page 38 - I rise, my lords, to declare my sentiments on this most solemn and serious subject. It has imposed a load upon my mind, which, I fear, nothing can remove ; but which impels me to endeavour its alleviation, by a free and unreserved communication of my sentiments.
Page 15 - ... collectors and comptrollers, and of all the slaves that adhered to them. Such would, and in no long time must, be the effect of attempting to forbid as a crime, and to suppress as an evil, the command and blessing of Providence, "Increase and multiply.
Page 47 - You cannot conciliate America by your present measures. You cannot subdue her by your present or by any measures. What, then, can you do ? You cannot conquer ; you cannot gain ; but you can address ; you can lull the fears and anxieties of the moment into an ignorance of the danger that should produce them.