 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pages
...this, however, I may be mistaken. But when 1 consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to bo serviceable to us, it seems to my poor understanding...completed your system of impoverishment, that nature still proceeds in her ordinary course i that discontent will increase with misery; and that there are... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...violence as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. Bat whoa I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us, it seems to my poor un derstanding a little preposterous to make them unserviceable in order to keep them obedient. It... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pages
...violence as very formidable. In this, however. I may bo mistaken. But when 1 consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us,...It is, in truth, nothing more than the old, and, as 1 thought, exploded problem of tyranny, which proposes to beugar its subjects into submission. But,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pages
...violence as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when 1 consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us,...them unserviceable in order to keep them obedient, isjjn truth, nothing more than the old, and, as thought, exploded problem of tyranny, which proposes... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...violence, as very '"nnidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider, that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us,...a little preposterous, to make them unserviceable, m order to keep them obedient. It is, in truth, nothing more than the old. and, 83 I thought, exploded... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1857 - 728 pages
...violence as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider, that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us,...understanding a little preposterous, to make them unBerviceable, in order to keep them obedient. It is, in truth, nothing more than the old, and, as... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...violence as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us,...completed your system of impoverishment, that nature still proceeds in her ordinary course ; that discontent will increase with misery ; and that there... | |
 | John Shaw (M.D.) - 1857 - 324 pages
...violence as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider that we have colonies for no purpose but to be serviceable to us,...preposterous to make them unserviceable in order to make them obedient. It is, in truth, nothing more than the old, and, as I thought, exploded problem... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 556 pages
...ploughshares into swords, and our pruning-hooks into spears, and learn the art of self-defence against our 1 " It is, in truth, nothing more than the old, and, as...proposes to beggar its subjects into submission."— Edmund Burke, 1775. — ED. enemies.1 To be careless and remiss, or to neglect the cause of our country... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 566 pages
...ploughshares into swords, and our pruning-hooks into spears, and learn the art of self-defence against our 1 " It is, in truth, nothing more than the old, and, as...proposes to beggar its subjects into submission."— Edmund Burke, 1775. — ED. enemies.1 To be careless and remiss, or to neglect the cause of our country... | |
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The power inadequate to all other things is often more than sufficient for this. I do not look on the direct and immediate power of the colonies to resist our violence, as very formidable. In this, however, I may be mistaken. But when I consider, that... 
