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A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett - Page 62
by William Leggett - 1840
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...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...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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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pages
...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...snuff the 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...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pages
...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...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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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pages
...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...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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The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best ..., Volume 2

William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 pages
...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...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...
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Transactions of the Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York, Volume 1

Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 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...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...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 33

1833 - 1006 pages
...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,...the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." * * * "Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and the colonies. No contrivance can prevent the...
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Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with ...

Charles Phillips - 1819 - 484 pages
...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...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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Collections, Historical & Miscellaneous, and Monthly Literary Journal, Volume 2

John Farmer - 1823 - 526 pages
...government only by an actual grievance — here, they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur...the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." For the origin of the revolution, then, we do not look to any particular event ; though in other circumstances...
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