Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775
Author : Edmund Burke
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Page : 266 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1898
Category : United States
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Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1898
Category : United States
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Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Edmund Burke
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Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 1895
Category : United States
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Author : Richard Bourke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1029 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1400873452
A major new account of one of the leading philosopher-statesmen of the eighteenth century Edmund Burke (1730–97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy during three European wars. He also advocated reform in Britain and became a central protagonist in the great debate on the French Revolution. Drawing on the complete range of printed and manuscript sources, Empire and Revolution offers a vivid reconstruction of the major concerns of this outstanding statesman, orator, and philosopher. In restoring Burke to his original political and intellectual context, this book overturns the conventional picture of a partisan of tradition against progress and presents a multifaceted portrait of one of the most captivating figures in eighteenth-century life and thought. A boldly ambitious work of scholarship, this book challenges us to rethink the legacy of Burke and the turbulent era in which he played so pivotal a role.
Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Fiction
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Edmund Burke's seminal speech is fully reproduced here. It was made at a time of dissent and unrest in the what were American colonies at the time of his speech. The colonies were rebellious and angry about the imposition of taxes by the British. He argues that conciliation would be a wise course in order to avoid worse trouble.
Author : Edmund Burke
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Page : 102 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300081473
The great British statesman Edmund Burke had a genius for political argument, and his impassioned speeches and writings shaped English public life in the second half of the eighteenth century. This anthology of Burke's speeches, letters, and pamphlets, selected, introduced, and annotated by David Bromwich, shows Burke to be concerned with not only preserving but also reforming the British empire. Bromwich includes eighteen works of Burke, all but one in its complete form. These writings, among them the "Speech on Conciliation with the American Colonies," A Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, the "Speech at Guildhall Previous to the Election" of 1780, the "Speech on Fox's India Bill," A Letter to a Noble Lord, and several private letters, demonstrate the depth of Burke's efforts to reform the empire in India, America, and Ireland. On these various fronts he defended the human rights of native peoples, the respect owed to partners in trade, and the civil liberties that the empire was losing at home while extending its power abroad.
Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 32,98 MB
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781391821665
Excerpt from Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq., On American Taxation, April 19, 1774 This piece has been for fome months ready for the prefs. But a delicacy, pofiibly over fcrupulous, has delayed the publication to this time. The friends of adminifiration have been ufed to attribute a great deal of the oppofition to their meafures in America to the writings publifhed in England. The Editor of this Speech 'kept it Shack, until all the meafures of government have had their full operation, and can be no longer affected, if ever they cbuld have been affeé'ted, by any publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781497461291
In 1651 originated the policy which caused the American Revolution. That policy was one of taxation, indirect, it is true, but none the less taxation. The first Navigation Act required that colonial exports should be shipped to England in American or English vessels. This was followed by a long series of acts, regulating and restricting the American trade. Colonists were not allowed to exchange certain articles without paying duties thereon, and custom houses were established and officers appointed. Opposition to these proceedings was ineffectual; and in 1696, in order to expedite the business of taxation, and to establish a better method of ruling the colonies, a board was appointed, called the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations. The royal governors found in this board ready sympathizers, and were not slow to report their grievances, and to insist upon more stringent regulations for enforcing obedience. Some of the retaliative measures employed were the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, the abridgment of the freedom of the press and the prohibition of elections. But the colonists generally succeeded in having their own way in the end, and were not wholly without encouragement and sympathy in the English Parliament. It may be that the war with France, which ended with the fall of Quebec, had much to do with this rather generous treatment. The Americans, too, were favored by the Whigs, who had been in power for more than seventy years. The policy of this great party was not opposed to the sentiments and ideas of political freedom that had grown up in the colonies; and, although more than half of the Navigation Acts were passed by Whig governments, the leaders had known how to wink at the violation of nearly all of them.
Author : Edmund Burke
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 22,7 MB
Release : 1775
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