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" When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance of British liberty, are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for... "
A History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent ... - Page 521
by George Bancroft - 1857
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...beauteous countenance of British liberty ; are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength ? our opprobrium. 1 Lord Carmarthen. for their glory ? and the slough of slavery, which we are not able to work off,...
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The State of the Nation: In a Series of Letters to His Grace, the Duke of ...

John Cartwright - 1805 - 194 pages
...weakness for " their strength ? our opprobium for their glory ? and " the slough of slavery which zee are not able to work " off, to serve them for their freedom ?"i Lord North too, when his American war had filled the nation with misery and discontent, but not...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 pages
...beauteous countenance of British liberty ; are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength...able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? If this be the case, ask yourselves this question, Will they be content in such a state of slavery...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 520 pages
...countetenance of British liberty ; are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? Are we to give them our weakness for their strength;...able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? * Lord Carmarthen. that the colonies would not have proceeded in supplying government as liberally,...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pages
...countetenance of British liberty ; are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? Are we to give them our weakness for their strength;...able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? » » . • • ( • * Lord Carmarthen- * If this be the case, ask yourselves this question : Will...
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The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best ..., Volume 2

William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 pages
...beauteous countenance of British liberty ; are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? Are we to give them our weakness for their strength...able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? PjThus was this great man, merely for disclaiming metaphysical distinctions and shewing their inapplicability...
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The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: In the House of ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1816 - 544 pages
...beauteous countenance of British liberty; are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? are we to give them our weakness for their strength...their' glory ; and the slough of slavery, which we are npt able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ? If this be the case, ask yourselves this question,...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 33

1833 - 1006 pages
...countenance of British liberty, are we to turn to them only the deformed part of the British Constitution ? Are we to give them our weakness for their strength,...able to work off, to serve them for their freedom ?" Even in this speech he strikes a blow at the political metaphysics, which the later and more glorious...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 5

1823 - 848 pages
...countenance of British liberty, are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? Arc we to give them our weakness for their strength ;...to work off, to serve them for their freedom ?" The city of Bristol, the merchants of which had become rich by the commerce with America, were likely te...
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Memoir of the life and character of ... Edmund Burke; with specimens of his ...

Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...beauteous countenance of British liberty, are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution ? Are we to give them our weakness for their strength...work off, to serve them for their freedom ? " The merits of this speech are of a great and peculiar cast ; a force and truth of argument, not to be answered...
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