 | Arthur Stanley Turberville - 1926 - 602 páginas
...a small matter — in amount. Yes, but ' would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's future ? No, but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the...it was demanded, would have made him a slave.' It was argued that the dignity of Parliament was involved in insisting on the tax. In that case this dignity... | |
 | Dominic Barthel - 1927 - 790 páginas
...when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings,...that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear. You are, therefore, at this moment, in the awkward situation of fighting for a phantom, a quiddity,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1981 - 536 páginas
...when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings,...on the principle it was demanded, would have made 1 Cornwall had made much in his speech (Cavendish Diary. Eg. MS. 255, p. 189l of the argument that,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 2002 - 412 páginas
...for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ] No I but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave." Referring to a speech made by Lord Carmarthen — his maiden speech. — Burke continued :-— " A... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 2003 - 438 páginas
...when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings,...duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear."29 Burke, intending to explain why American whigs looked at English history to find arguments... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 476 páginas
...Hampden to resist the payment of a tax of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined his fortune ? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle on which it was demanded, would have made him a slave. Sir, if in acting on these high motives —... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2005 - 848 páginas
...when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings,...that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear. THE ISSUE ON THE PRINCIPLE. 105 The manner of proceeding in the duties on paper and glass, imposed... | |
 | George Anastaplo - 2005 - 918 páginas
...when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings,...principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave. . . . [Burke, Works (London: World Classics, 1930), 2:101; see, also, ibid., 2:242] Compare the attitude... | |
 | 1920 - 950 páginas
...were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. . . . Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune ? No ! but the payment of half twenty shillings,...principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.' And so Burke and Chatham were agreed (as they were too seldom) when the latter said, ' I rejoice that... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 466 páginas
...any one suppose that the payment of twenty shillings, would have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? Ko\ But the payment of half* twenty shillings, on the...principle* it was demanded, would have made him a slave\ 4. I insist* upon this point*: I urge* you to it; I press* it, demand* it. 5. All that I have\ all... | |
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The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment... 
