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.... English Prose: Selections - עמוד 377נערך על ידי - 1894תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 דפים
...Revolution" in France, issued a year later ; in 1796, " Letters on a Regicide Peace." He died July 9, 1797.] I AM sensible, sir, that all which I have asserted...want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management than of force, — considering force not as an odious, but a feeble instrument,... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 דפים
...according to abstract ideas of right ; by no means according to mere general theories of government. . . . I am sensible, sir, that all which I have asserted...want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management than of force, — considering force not as an odious, but a feeble instrument,... | |
| 1899 - 616 דפים
...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...want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management than of force; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble, instrument... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 468 דפים
...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...want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management than of force, considering force not as an odious, but a feeble, instrument... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1899 - 202 דפים
...a noble object. It is B an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect...and their habits. Those who understand the military 10 art will of course have some predilection for it. Those who wield the thunder of the state may have... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1899 - 178 דפים
...fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in 5 this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions0 and their habits. Those who understand the military art will of course have some predilection... | |
| 1900 - 496 דפים
...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...want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management than of force ; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble, instrument... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1900 - 464 דפים
...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...want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management jjiau of force — considering force not as an odious, but a feeble, 'instrument... | |
| 1900 - 500 דפים
...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...want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management than of force; considering force not as an odious, but a feeble, instrument... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1900 - 136 דפים
...Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect 15 will be led to their choice of means by their complexions...confidence in the efficacy of arms. ' But I confess, 20 possibly for want of this knowledge, my opinion is much more in favor of prudent management, than... | |
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