 In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle....  Albany Law Journal - Halaman 731870Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 halaman
...and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 halaman
...and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 halaman
...and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 halaman
...and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. from the Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill. THE several irruptions of Arabs, Tartars, and Persians... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 616 halaman
...and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle; they augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."* The statesmen who appeared at the dawn of the revolution attracted the admiration of Europe ; and the... | |
 | 1833 - 1006 halaman
...and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the hadness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." * * * "Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and the colonies. No contrivance can prevent the... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 halaman
...and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur mis-government at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as... | |
 | John Farmer - 1823 - 526 halaman
...evil, and judge of the pressure of grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." For the origin of the revolution, then, we do not look to any particular event ; though in other circumstances... | |
 | 1830 - 684 halaman
...a people. As Burke said of us, while yet dependent on Great Britain, we should "augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." These were our characteristics as colonies; these were the traits of our youthful independence. Under... | |
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