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
| James Parton - 1864 - 728 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." If the reader will turn to this great speech, one of the greatest ever delivered, he will pereeive,... | |
| James Parton - 1864 - 720 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,...badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment ut * distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." If the reader will turn... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 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,...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... | |
| Henry Martyn Dexter - 1865 - 350 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,...and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the baseness of the principle." 8 The inevitableness of popular intelligence as the result of a living... | |
| Henry Martyn Dexter - 1865 - 352 pages
...and of a less mereurial east, judge of an ill prineiple in government only by an actual grievanee; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievanee by the baseness of the prineiple." 2 The inevitableness of popular intelligenee as the result... | |
| Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attact, 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 misgovcrument at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The last cause... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1869 - 584 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 ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of thepressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance,... | |
| 1870 - 546 pages
...inquisitivo, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defense, full of resources. In other countries, w( e' Â s ] ]L j * - Jե a7ᛔ $*{ 7 = I" 3 G G... 8 qT 1 ӫ x w? ݪ l ii ܊n<˫ !/ ; Z SIDNEY. While our profession are popularly accused of bad manners, it is gratifying to learn that Sir... | |
| 1870 - 546 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,...grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernmont at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." SiDNEY. While... | |
| Henry Martyn Dexter - 1871 - 426 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,...and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the baseness of the principle." 2 The inevitableness of popular intelligence as the result of a living... | |
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