America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits.... Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America - Страница 23по Edmund Burke - 1899 - 124 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 страници
...contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted...people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who... | |
| 1775 - 868 страници
...but that quite a different conclufion is drawn from it. America, Gentlemen fay, is a noble objeft. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting people be the beft way of liaising them. Gentlemen in this refpecl will be led to their choice of means... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 страници
...admitted in the grofs-; but that quite a different conclufion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen fay, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting...for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the beft way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this refpect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions... | |
| 1799 - 576 страници
...country. I fubftitute the word Ireland for America. Ireland [ 100 ] " Ireland is a noble objeft — it is an object well worth fighting for- Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the beft way of gaining them. Men in this refpedt will be led to their choice of means, by their complexions... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 страници
...admitted in the grofs ; but that quite a diflerent conclufion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen fay, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting...for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the beft way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this refpect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1803 - 454 страници
...admitted in the grofs ; but that quite a different conclufion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen fay, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, jf fighting a people be the beft way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this refpect will be led-to their... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 страници
...contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted,...people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 страници
...contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, sir, that all which I have asserted...people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 страници
...contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, sir, that all which I have asserted...people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1813 - 768 страници
...contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. 1 am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted,...admitted in the gross; but that quite a different conclu» sion is drawn from it. America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth... | |
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