 This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. 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....  New Englander and Yale Review - Page 3501888Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1857 - 728 pages
...inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast,...grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgoverninent at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The last... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1854 - 1036 pages
...seeing he has the disposition, but the determined resistance of the people, who are accustomed "to anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of...They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff up the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." If then, sir, you will not defend New England,... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1854 - 1032 pages
...seeing he has the disposition, but the determined resistance of the people, who are accustomed "to anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of...grievance by the badness of the principle. '• They augur misgovern men t at a distance, and snuff up the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." If then,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defense, full of resources. In other countries, now the hear-him'>s rose from this side — now they...party to whom they fell at length from their tremulous misgov eminent at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. (6.) The... | |
 | Thomas Roderick Dew - 1856 - 678 pages
...In his speech on American affairs, 1775, he speaks of them as that profession which teaches men to " augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." He has certainly underrated the lawyers of the National Assembly. In England, owing to the organization... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 544 pages
...inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defense, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast,...the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." The peroration of this speech is uncommonly fine: " My hold of the colonies," added Mr. Burke, " is... | |
 | Rollin Carlos Hurd - 1858 - 714 pages
...inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast,...badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment from a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." 2 Burke's Works, 38. The... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 398 pages
...acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast,...the approach of tyranny in. every tainted breeze."* A wise government, dealing with three millions of subjects of such a spirit, and at so great a distance,... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...feeling in America is thus finely described by Burke. " I& other countries the people, more simple, of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle...the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." Such was the superiority of Otis over every other member of the house in talents, information, and... | |
 | Henry Simpson - 1859 - 1170 pages
...was one of those discerning keen-sighted patriots who, in the language of an eloquent statesman, " augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." No less prompt to act than vigilant to discover, he was among the first to raise his voice and extend... | |
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