 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1792 - 398 páginas
...neither in wifdom as legiflators, nor in dexterity as politicians. Thefe fa&s evince that the powers , of mankind have been unjuftly depreciated the difficulty...call it forth. But the predominance of the profeffion o£ the law, that profeffion which teaches men " to augur mif-government at a diftance, and " muff... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 páginas
...anticipate the evil, and judge of the preffure of the grievance by the badnefs of the principle. They augur mifgovernment at a diftance; and muff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The laft caufe of this difobedient fpirit in the colonies is .hardly lefs powerful than the reft, as... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 páginas
...anticipate the evil, and judge of the preffure of the grievance by the badnefs of the principle. They augur mifgovernment at a diftance ; and muff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The laft caufe of this difobedient fpirit in the colonies is hardly lefs powerful than the reft, as... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 452 páginas
...anticipate the evil, and judge of the preffure of the grievance by the badnefs of the principle. They augur mifgovernment at a diftance ; and muff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. The laft caufe of this difobedient fpirit in the Colonies is hardly lefs powerful than the reft, as... | |
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Thefe fafts evince that the powers pf mankind have been unjuftly depreciated, the difficulty of Political affairs artfully magnified, and that there exifts a quantity of talent latent among men, which ever rifes to the level of the great occafions that... 