 | Stephen Bromley McCracken - 1876 - 714 страници
...of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle of government only by an actual grievance; but here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure...the grievance by the badness of the principle ; they argue misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." * *... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1877 - 560 страници
...other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they...snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. 6. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest,... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 страници
...other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they...snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. 6. The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest,... | |
 | Don Krasher Price - 1965 - 344 страници
...American revolutionary thought not to egalitarian theorists, but to the lawyers, who, he remarked, "augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." 3 He might well have added the dissenting clergy, whose churches were among centers of antimonarchical... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - 1879 - 278 страници
...The philosophic Burke tells us that it is the profession which teaches men to "augur misgovern rnent at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." (Applause.) The masters of the law have been the foremost in moulding all the great epochs of progress.... | |
 | Stephen Miller - 1983 - 176 страници
...cast, judge of an ill principle in government by an actual grievance; here [in the American colonies] they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle."8 Colonial patriots were inclined to invoke principles whenever they could — inclined,... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 2003 - 398 страници
...Burke explained, "the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil and judge the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance,... | |
 | Southern Historical Society - 1881 - 592 страници
...* In other countries the people more simple, of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they...the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." These words of Mr. Burke are as applicable to the soldiers of '61-5 as to their patriot sires of 1776.... | |
 | Stephen H. Browne - 1993 - 172 страници
...current ministry: "Abeunt studio in mores. " The Americans, as a necessary result, are well equipped to "augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze." Finally, the very physical character of Anglo-American relations thwarts arbitrary rule. The "disobedient... | |
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This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt 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 government only by an actual grievance... 
