 | George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 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...relents ; I pardon something to the spirit of liberty." Compromise. — It was in the speech just referred to that Mr. Burke also remarked : " We Englishmen... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 354 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.51 I am sensible, sir, that all which I... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams, John Alden - 1884 - 360 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.81 I am sensible, sir, that all which I... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 346 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.61 I am sensible, sir, that all which I... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 340 pages
...and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. When I contemplate these things — when I know that colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care...human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.61 I am sensible, sir, that all which I... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 464 pages
...are \j still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. [31]^ When I contemplate these things ; when I know that...human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. [32] I am sensible, Sir, that all which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 274 pages
...other proposals for dealing with the colonies. Their features. Compare with this of Burke's. II. 1. "When I contemplate these things; when I know that...human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty." Give the context of this passage. Comment... | |
 | 1900 - 500 pages
...nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection—when I reflect upon these effects—when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 136 pages
...suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable 5 they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power...human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I jxanj.on something to the spirit of liberty. tyrSl. I am sensible, Sir, that all which... | |
 | 1901 - 208 pages
...weak are the concessions of fear. The colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours. Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature...human contrivances melt and die away within me — my rigor relents — I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. America, gentlemen say, is a noble object,... | |
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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... 
