 ... when I reflect upon these effects — when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 5211848Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1895 - 158 pages
...nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through...relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted in 5 my detail, is admitted in the gross ; but that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1895 - 104 pages
...nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government — but that, through...relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. 1 A constellation seen within the antarctic circle. 2 The largest of a group of islands off the southeast... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1895 - 156 pages
...nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through...relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted in 5 my detail, is admitted in the gross ; but that... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1896 - 270 pages
...effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink, and all the presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt...— I pardon something to the spirit of liberty." " I think it necessary," lie insisted, " to consider distinctly the true nature and the peculiar circumstances... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1896 - 486 pages
...perfection ; when I see how profitable these effects have been to us, I feel all the pride of power melt and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. " From six capital sources : descent, form of government, religion in the northern provinces, manners... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1897 - 110 pages
...nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I reflect upon these effects, 10 when I see how profitable they have been to us, I...relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted in my 15 detail is admitted in the gross ; but that... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 280 pages
...nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through...relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty." — BURKE : Speech on Conciliation with America. " And Raveloe was a village where many of the old... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1899 - 178 pages
...neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection ; when I re20 fleet upon these effects, when I see how profitable they...relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. 25 I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted in my detail is admitted in the gross ; but that... | |
 | 1899 - 616 pages
...nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection—when I reflect upon these effects—when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel...relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, sir, that all which I have asserted in my detail is admitted in the gross; but that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1899 - 202 pages
...reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of 20 power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human...relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. I am sensible, Sir, that all which I have asserted in my detail is admitted in the gross, but that... | |
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