Excerpt from The Dream of an Englishman As for the Colonies, we purpose through Heaven's blessing to retain them a while yet Shame on us for un worthy'sons of brave fathers if we do not. Brave fathers, by valiant blood and sweat, purchased for us, from the bounty of Heaven, rich possessions in all zones; and we, wretched imbeciles, cannot do the function of administering them? And because the accounts do not stand well in the ledger, our remedy is, not to take shame to ourselves, and repent in sackcloth and ashes, and ...
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Excerpt from The Dream of an Englishman As for the Colonies, we purpose through Heaven's blessing to retain them a while yet Shame on us for un worthy'sons of brave fathers if we do not. Brave fathers, by valiant blood and sweat, purchased for us, from the bounty of Heaven, rich possessions in all zones; and we, wretched imbeciles, cannot do the function of administering them? And because the accounts do not stand well in the ledger, our remedy is, not to take shame to ourselves, and repent in sackcloth and ashes, and amend our beggarly imbecilities and insincerities in that as in other depart ments of our business, but to fling the business overboard, and declare the business itself to be bad? I've are a hopefulsetol' heirs to a big fortune! It does not suit our Manton gunneries, grouse-shootings, mousings in the ('ity and like spirited young gentlemen we will give it up, and let the attorneys take ito They are portions of the gene 'al Cart-h, where the children of Britain now dwell where the gods have so far sanctioned their endeavour, as to say that they havea right to dwell. England will not readily admit that her own children are worth nothing but to be flung out of doors England looking on her Colonies can say Here we lands and seas, spice-lands, corn-lands, timber-lands, overarched by zodiacs and stars, clasped by man y-sounding seas wide spaces of the Maker's building, fit forthe cradle yet of mighty Nations and their Sciences and Heroisms. Fertile continents still inhabited by wild beasts are mine, into which all the distressed populations of Europe might pour themselves, and make at once an Old World and a. New hrld human. By the eternal fiat of the gods, this must yet one day be this, by all the Divine Silences that rule this Universe, silent to fools, eloquent and awful to the hearts of the wise, is incessantly at this moment, and at all moments, commanded to begin to be. Unspeakable deliverance, and new destiny of thousandfold expanded manfulness for all men, dawns out of the Future here. To me has fallen the godlike task of initiating all that: of me and of my Colonies, the abstruse Future asks, Are you wise enough for so sub lime a destiny? Are you too foolish?' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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