 ... and untractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than...  Speech on Conciliation with America - Страница 19по Edmund Burke - 1897 - 152 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 страници
...management of America, even more than its population and commerce, — I mean its temper and character. the earth ; and this from a great variety of powerful...and the direction which this spirit takes, it will not be amiss to lay open somewhat more largely. First, the people of the colonies are descendants of... | |
 | Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford - 1899 - 72 страници
...them8 by force or shuffle from2 them3 by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for.4 This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English...people of the earth, and this from a great variety of poweriul causes; which, to understand the true temper of their minds, and the direction which this... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1899 - 202 страници
...the least attempt to wrest from them by force or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit...colonies probably than in any other people of the 5 earth; and this from a great variety of powerful causes, which, to understand the true temper of... | |
 | Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford - 1899 - 74 страници
...them3 by force or shuffle from2 them8 by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for.4 This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies, probably, than in any6 other people of the earth, and this from a great variety of powerful causes; which, to understand... | |
 | Frances W. Lewis - 1900 - 334 страници
...the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit...and the direction which this spirit takes, it will not be amiss to lay open somewhat largely. when this part of your character was most predominant, and... | |
 | Rose Buhlig - 1922 - 496 страници
...Burke — After saying that the predominating feature of the Americans is a love of freedom, he says: This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English...in any other people of the earth; and this from a variety of powerful causes. Then he continues to explain each in detail. Bring to class a paragraph... | |
 | Randolph Greenfield Adams - 1922 - 234 страници
...too, remembered 1688.^J "Novanglus, IV. 113. "Novanglus, IV. 114. Cf. also Eland's Enquiry, p. 20. 7 4 "This fierce spirit of Liberty is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people on earth. "They are therefore devoted to liberty according to English ideas and on English principles."... | |
 | Henry Howard Roberts - 1923 - 210 страници
...the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit...and the direction which this spirit takes, it will not be amiss to lay open somewhat more largely. First, the people of the colonies are descendants of... | |
 | 1924 - 512 страници
...see the least attempt to wrest from them by force or shuffle from them by chicane what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit...colonies probably than in any other people of the earth. * * * * "The people of the colonies are descendants of Englishmen. England, Sir, is a nation which... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - 1923 - 714 страници
...This fierce spirit of liberty [thundered one of these friends, Edmund Burke, in Parliament's ears] is stronger in the English colonies probably than in any other people of the earth . . . and, as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable... | |
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