The Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 2권Longmans, Green, and Company, 1914 |
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193 페이지 - and exercise every power whatsoever—except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent. Let us be content with the advantages which Providence has bestowed upon us. We have attained the highest glory and greatness; let us strive long to preserve them for our own happiness and that of our posterity.
319 페이지 - you may traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince; your efforts are for ever vain and impotent . . . your own army is infected with the contagion of these illiberal allies. The spirit of rapine and plunder is gone forth among them.
190 페이지 - would not permit them to manufacture a lock of wool or a horseshoe or a hobnail. In everything you may bind them except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent. Here I would draw the line,— sunt certi denique fines, Quos ultra
267 페이지 - tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. Though I will not aid the voice of faction
189 페이지 - we give and grant, we give what is our own. But in an American tax what do we do ? We your Majesty's Commons of Great Britain give and grant to your Majesty—what ? Our own property ? No. We give and grant to your Majesty the property of your Majesty's Commons in America. It is an absurdity in
320 페이지 - frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country. In vain he led your victorious fleets against the boasted Armada of Spain ; in vain he defended and established the honour, the liberties, the religion, the Protestant religion of this country, against the arbitrary cruelties of popery and the Inquisition, if these more than popish cruelties
327 페이지 - his Majesty succeeded to an empire as great in extent as its reputation was unsullied. Shall we tarnish the lustre of this nation by an ignominious surrender of its rights and fairest possessions ? Shall this great kingdom that has survived whole and entire the Danish depredations, the Scottish inroads '—and
190 페이지 - The gentleman tells us America is obstinate; America is almost in open rebellion. I rejoice that America has resisted. If its millions of inhabitants had submitted, taxes would soon have been laid on Ireland ; and, if ever this nation should have a tyrant for its king, six millions of freemen, so dead to all the feelings of liberty,
280 페이지 - He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a soul whose master-bias leans To home-felt pleasures and to gentle scenes; More brave for this, that he hath much to love.
192 페이지 - The Americans have been wronged. They have been driven to madness by injustice. Will you punish them for the madness you have occasioned ? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side. I will undertake for America that she will follow the example. There are two lines