 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 страници
...choose, Sir, to enter into these minute and particular details ; because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have...So far, Sir, as to the importance of the object in view of its commerce, as concerned in the exports from England. If I were to detail the imports, I... | |
 | 1775 - 868 страници
...we fpeak of the commerce of our Colonies, fiction lags after truth -, invention is unfruitful, .mi I imagination cold and barren. So far, Sir, as to the importance of the objedt in the view of its commerce, as concerned in the exports from England. If I were to detail the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 страници
...to do it long with impunity. —Ibid. AM'ERICA. Commerce with our American Colonies. WHEN we fpeak. of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after...is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.— —Ibid.' IMPORTS FROM AMERICA. IF I were to detail the imports, I could fhew how many enjoyments they... | |
 | 1800 - 458 страници
...fubjeft, have here a tendency to fink it. When we fpeak of the commerce with our Colonies, fiition lags after truth ; invention is unfruitful, and imagination...object in the view of . its commerce, as concerned ia the exports from England. If I were to detail the imports, I could fliew how many enjoyments they... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 страници
...choose, sir, to enter into these minute and particular details ; because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have...commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth j invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. So far, sir, as to the importance of the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 страници
...When we speak i« the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth ; invention is unfruittul, and imagination cold and barren. So far, Sir, as to the importance aim object in the view of its commerce, as con» . . , . py issue of moderate and healing councils)... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 526 страници
...with our colonies, fic'ion lags tfier truth; invention is unfruitful; and imagination cold and barreo. So far, sir, as to the importance of the object in...the exports from England. If I were to detail the im forli, I could shew how many enjoyments they procure which deceive the burthen of life; how m»ny... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 514 страници
...details; because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to Lighten and raise the subject, uave here a tendency to sink it. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fic'ion lags *fter truth; invention is unfruitful; and imagination cold and barren. So far, sir, as... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 страници
...hog's head. fau'kes. CCCLXVII. Some falls are the means the happier to rise. Shakspeare. CCCLXVIII. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction...invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. — Burke. CCCLXIX. That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do (which is the... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 страници
...breathing dread, Fmakes. CCCLXVII. Some falls are the means the happier to rise. Hhakspeare. CCCLXVIII. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction...invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.—Burke. CCCLXIX. That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do (which is... | |
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I choose, sir, to enter into these minute and particular details ; because generalities, which in all other cases are apt to heighten and raise the subject, have here a tendency to sink it. When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags... 
