 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...own day, and to govern two millions of men, impatient of servitude, on the principles of freedom. I am not determining a point of law ; I am restoring...therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right, or grant as matter of favour, is to admit the people of our colonies into an interest... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...discourse relating to the immediate state of our affairs, and recommending plans of practical government. The general character and situation of a people must...That point nothing else can or ought to determine. The circumstances and habits of every country, which it is always perilous and productive of the greatest... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...discourse relating to the immediate state of our affairs, and recommending plans of practical government. The general character and situation of a people must...That point nothing else can or ought to determine. * * * * The circumstances and habits of every country, which it is always perilous and productive of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pages
...impatient of servitude, on the principles of freedom. I am not determining a point of law ; I 'afli restoring tranquillity ; and the general character...sort of government is fitted for them. That point n6thing else can or ought to determine. My idea therefore, without considering whether we yield as... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pages
...own day, and to govern two millions of men, impatient of servitude, on the principles of freedom. I am not determining a point of law. I am restoring...therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right, or grant as matter of favour, is to admit the people of our colonies into an interest... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pages
...own day, and to govern two millions of men, impatient of servitude, on the principles of freedom. I am not determining a point of law. I am restoring...therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right, or grant as matter of favour, is to admit the people of our colonies into an interest... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...relating to the immediate state of our affairs, and recommending plans of practical government. * * * » The general character and situation of a people must...That point nothing else can or ought to determine. * * * * The circumstances and habits of every country, •which it is always perilous and productive... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 540 pages
...own day, and to govern two million of men, impatient of servitude, on the principles of freedom. I am not determining a point of law ; I am restoring...therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right, or grant as matter of favour, is to admit the people of ottr colonies into an interest... | |
 | 1897 - 808 pages
...not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. I am not determining a point of law ; I am restoring...determine what sort of government is fitted for them." . . . "Nobody shall persuade me, when a whole people are concerned, that acts of lenity are not means... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 514 pages
...servitude, on the principles of freedom. 1 am not determining a point of law; 1 am restoring tranquility, and the general character and situation of a people...therefore, without considering whether we yield as matter of right, or grant as matter of favor, is to admit the people of our colonies into an interest... | |
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I am restoring tranquillity ; and the general character and situation of a people must determine what sort of government is fitted for them. 
