 | Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 pages
...perfection ; when I reflect upon these efforts, when I see how profitable they 434 BRITISH PARLIAMENT. have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink,...human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, sir, that all which I have... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1877 - 560 pages
...of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, "Natural History," and is to the effect that a woman condemned to be strangled in prison was left instead... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, hurch, the reclaiming of three millions of men from...paper, giving " universal emancipation !" I speak "Natural History," and is to the effect that a wonmn condemned to be strangled in prison was left instead... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - 582 pages
...of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry...human contrivances melt and die away within me, — my rigor relents, — I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, Sir, that all which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1883 - 396 pages
...but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a_penerous nature has been y^rcr1 t<-> t^V^ fapr nwr^ way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects,...contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigour reI pardon something to the spirit of liberty. j contri I3nts/ I AM sensible, Sir, that all which I... | |
 | Alexander Starbuck - 1878 - 794 pages
...nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection, — when I reflect upon these efiects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I...human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty." But eloquence, logic, arguments, facts... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by tho constraints of watchful and suspicious government,...away within me, — my rigour relents, — I pardon eomething to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted in my detail... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pages
...perfection, — when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to ns, dition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often parade f/ I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted in my detail is admitted in the gross, but that... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1880 - 842 pages
...nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraint of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through...contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigour relente ; I pardon something to the spirit of liberty." Compromise. — It was in the speech just referred... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...and suspicious government, hut that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has l>een suffered to take her own way to perfection, — when...relents, — I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. BURKE: Speech on Conciliation wit/i America, March 22, 1775. There is no art or science that is too... | |
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When I contemplate these things; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise... 
