Burke's Speech on American Taxation Author:Edmund Burke Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 54 9 heads and points, in the same truckle-bed: This is supposed to allude to Lord North and George Cooke, who were made joint Paymasters. "As a handful of pins ... more »shaken together will be found to have heads and points confused, so two persons get more space in a narrow bed by lying opposite ways. The truckle-bed was a bed that runs on wheels under a higher bed." (Payne.) 54 21 When his face was hid but for a moment: Isaiah liv. 8. Pitt's face was hid for three years. 55 14 I speak of Charles Townshend : Horace Walpole has more justly said : " He (Townshend) had almost every great talent, and every little quality. His vanity exceeded even his abilities, and his suspicions seemed to make him doubt whether he had any. With such a capacity he must have been the greatest man of this age, and perhaps inferior to no man in any age, had his faults been only in a moderate proportion — in short, if he had had but common truth, common sincerity, common honesty, common modesty, common steadiness, common courage, and common sense." (Memoirs of George III, III, 72.) 55 17 the delight and ornament of this House : " It was Garrick writing and acting extempore scenes of Congreve." (Walpole.) 55 31 between wind and water: that part of a ship's side or bottom which is frequently brought above the water by the rolling of the vessel or by fluctuation of the water's surface. A hole made by shot in such a spot is very dangerous. 57 16 an advocate for the Stamp Act: Townshend spoke in support of the bill and referred to the pretended gratitude of the Americans, whom he styled " children planted by our care, and nourished by our indulgence." Colonel Barre retorted: " They planted by your care! No! your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated, in...« less