 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissentions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which...insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as Sir Edward Coke insulted one excellent individual (Sir Walter Raleigh) at the... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissentions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which...insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures, as Sir Edward Coke iusulted one excellent individual (Sir Walter Raleigh) at the... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Public opinion Great Britain - 1819 - 574 pages
...nor virtue left on the earth. Mr. Burke said, in his speech on the Conciliation with America — " I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. 1 cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow creatures. I am not , ripe to pass... | |
 | North American review - 1897 - 808 pages
...me, when a whole people are concerned, that acts of lenity are not means of conciliation." . . . " I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people." These are sentences which will outlast many constitutions, and, like so much of what Burke said, they... | |
 | Harrison Gray Otis - Hartford Convention - 1824 - 126 pages
...in his Excellency's collection, by the sides of those of Cataline and Cethegus. HG OTJS. LETTER VI. "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies, entrusted with magistracies of great authority... | |
 | Harrison Gray Otis - Hartford Convention - 1824 - 120 pages
...in his Excellency's collection, by the sides of those of Cataline and Cethegus. LETTER VI. HG OTIS. "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies, entrusted with magistracies of great authority... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...which may, from time to time, on great questions, a.Htate the several communities which compose a peat empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic«, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal l"-ti' с to tliis great publick contest. 1 do not know ih- rnrtluxl of drawing up an indictment against... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. The policy appears to an whole people. I cannot insult and ridicule the feelings of millions of my fellow-creatures, as Sir... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...supported by eleven provinces more. He felt, as Burke at the same period truly and finely said, that he did not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.* There remained then only the hope, perhaps too sanguine, yet such as full success had crowned in the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...men, who disturb order within the state, and the civil dissensionswhich may, from time to time, on we are looking for them beneath the arctick circle,...that they have pierced into the opposite region of pedantick, to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great publick contest. \ I do not... | |
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State, and the civil dissensions which may, from time to time, on great questions, agitate the several communities which compose a great empire. It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public... 
