 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...  Speeches: With Memoir and Historical Introductions - Page 87by Edmund Burke - 1862 - 456 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1775 - 868 pages
...other countries, the people, more fimple and of a lefs mercurial caft, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the prelVuie of the grievance by the badnefs 'of the principle. They augur mifgovernmentat adiftance; and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...other countries, the people, more fimple and of a lefs mercurial caft, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the preffure of the grievance by the badnefs of the principle. They augur mifgovernment at a diftance;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...other countries, .the people, more fimple and of a lefs mercurial caft, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the preffure of the grievance by the badnefs of the principle. They augur mifgovernment at a diftince;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1801 - 368 pages
...other countries, the people, more fimple and of a lefs mercurial caft, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the preffure of the grievance by the badnefs of the principle. They augur mifgovernment at a diftance ;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 452 pages
...other countries, the people, more fimple, and of a lefs mercurial caft, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the preffure of the grievance by the badnefs of the principle. They augur mifgovernment at a diftance ;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they...approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. * The Attorney General. VOL. n. . F The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...other countries the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they...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... | |
 | Europe - 1811 - 558 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance ; here they...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.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government by an actual grievance : here they anticipate 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 masterly... | |
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