 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 페이지
...breeze. The laft caufe of this difobedient fpirit in the colonies is .hardly lefs powerful than the reft, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural conftitution of things. Three • • * The Attorney General, thoufand miles of ocean lie betwen you... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 페이지
...breeze. The laft caufe of this difobedient fpirit in the colonies is hardly lefs powerful than the reft, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural ccnftitution of things. Three thoufand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 페이지
...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 Attorney General. VOL. n. . F The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 페이지
...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 페이지
...augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuft the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. [496 The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful thai the rest, as it is not merely moral, hut laid deep in the natural constitution of thing*, Three... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 616 페이지
...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 masterly... | |
 | 1833 - 1006 페이지
...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... | |
 | John Farmer - 1823 - 526 페이지
...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 페이지
...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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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.... 
