 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....  The American Revolution - Էջ 102George Otto Trevelyan - 1898Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 էջ
...of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 էջ
...of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 էջ
...of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 էջ
...of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure...snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. from the Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill. THE several irruptions of Arabs, Tartars, and Persians... | |
 | 1811 - 558 էջ
...lofty sentiments; — who " do not judge of an ill principle only by an actual grievance, " but who anticipate the evil and judge of the pressure of the " grievance by the badness of the principle; — who snuff the M approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." It could scarcely be credited that... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 էջ
...of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure...principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuft the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. [496 The last cause of this disobedient spirit... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 616 էջ
...and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government by an actual grievance : here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure...the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."* The statesmen who appeared at the dawn of the revolution attracted the admiration of Europe ; and the... | |
 | 1833 - 1006 էջ
...of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the hadness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 էջ
...of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure...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... | |
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