The last cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can... Works - Seite 126von Edmund Burke - 1865Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Edmund Burke - 1852 - 558 Seiten
...cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of 1 The Attorney-general. ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1852 - 552 Seiten
...cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Three thousand miles of 5 The Attorney-general. ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 Seiten
...cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution...explanation of a single point, is enough to defeat a whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts in their pounces... | |
| 1853 - 458 Seiten
...cause of this disobedient spirit in the colonies if hardly less powerful than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution...between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the cflect of this distance, in weakening government. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 Seiten
...disobedient spirit in the colonies is hardlv less powerful . . . * Rt;mo!cnes-. than the rest, as it is not merely moral, but laid deep in the natural constitution...of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance oan prevent the elfect of this distance in weakening government. Seas roll, and months pass, between... | |
| Arthur Mills - 1856 - 482 Seiten
...Burke, when, in adverting to the Colonies of America, he thus admonished the Imperial Parliament : — " Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and...government. Seas roll and months pass between the order and execution, and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.... | |
| David Hume - 1859 - 242 Seiten
...principle in the natural constitution of things for weakening government, which no contrivance can prevent. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and...explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system. You have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your bolts to the remotest... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 Seiten
...moral, hut laid deep in the natural constitution of things. Thre* thousand miles of ocean lie hetween ٝ U$A =m jR_S w\ơ J / ̈ ɸ W > ى [#D AS L ( Ņϧ O Jσa }/ - z nDl 9O* F% hetween the order and the execution : and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point, is enough... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 Seiten
...inilp-, nf ncrnn Ue_hgiween TOU_and them. No contrivance can prevent the (fleet of this distance m weakening government. Seas roll, and months pass,...explanation of a single point, is enough to defeat a whole system Yon have, indeed, winged ministers of vengeance, who carry your | bolts in their pounces... | |
| Thomas Erskine May - 1863 - 608 Seiten
...passed by the Assemblies. 6 " Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them," said Mr. Burke. " No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government." Adam Smith observed: — "Their situation has placed them less in the view and less in the power of... | |
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